i think for this forum to be more upto date the authorities should put in place some new rules:-
1)the user who has not been posting any messages for more than 2 months, she/he should be deleted temporily from the forum .their passwords and username should be stored in a temporary file and they should not be shown as members.after their exams,illness,vacation or anything if they choose to come back there should be a way by which they can renew their accounts.but only after they renew their accounts should they be shown as members till that time they are just guests.the users should be notified if they are on the verge of temporary deletion.
2)if for more than 3 months there has been no message from a particular user that person should be permanently deleted (as well as all their messages)from the forum.renewal of accounts are not applicable here.if after 3 months that person still wants to be a part of the forum she/he has to get a new username and password.prior to deletion of their accounts from this forum they should be send a couple of notices .
3)one think that i dont understand is that why on earth does this forum show messages which are a year old.noone is interested to respond to a message which has been posted say a year back,atleast i'll be reluctant to do so.what if the user concerned with a message as long since left the forum or say she/he is not interested in it anymore, then whats the point in it anyway.i hope that all that messages which date back to say a year ago should be deleted from the forum.only new messeges should be in the forum,which are not more than a year old.
please dont take these suggestions as orders from me,but instead see it as an ardent plea from a user who really wants to improve this forum :-\
I think that the admin should just delete the users who don't write anything the ones that aren't active.
And about the 1st rule u posted. I don't think that the admin can do it. You can't do that in a forum (I think.. :-\)
I agree with firenze on these points. Admin has talked about it before, I don't know what his reasons for not following through are but I am sure he has one. lol
Admin does what admin dioes, but You are right, I think that this is a way he could safe space on the forum.
About the older posts, I don't know much about this stuff but if he could delete the older posts, would our number of posts go down? Or can he do that with out dmaking ppl loose there posts? I personaly don't worry bout that(obviously, loook at the number. lol) but I am sure there may be some that do.
Aslo, about hte ones who join but never post...I think there should be a time limit on those too. They Annoy me.
First off, We've tried those. Admin wanted to do that, but it wasn't possible (were even lucky we have a forum)
I agree wit those points but to be honest Admin probably got better things to do with their time than go through 100s of post and sift out wat nes are a year old and as to the users I don't think he would keep a record of all posts made so it would be very difficult to find those who haven't posted in last 2 months...no offencce ;D