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What is meant by Blog Archiving? When and why was Blog Locking/Archiving introduced? Where can Archived Blog Entries be found? 4 Answers What is meant by Blog Archiving? When and why was Blog Locking/Archiving introduced? Where can Archived Blog Entries be found? A new feature has been introduced to help our admins to moderate the site better. Sometimes, a discussion or topic starts well, but goes off into a tangent, gets unfocused, and sometimes continues forever into an unending insult/flame war. Admins cannot keep monitoring such a discussion/thread and keep removing unwanted posts at the tail end of that topic, and subsequent responses. You will now see a new link called "Lock" next to "Add Bookmark". Using this, admins can "lock a blog entry". This will prevent users from continuing that thread. That whole entry... more... @moderator: Complements for adding LOCK feature. This will put a brake on further unnecessary lenghtening of very old blog entries which, as of date in view of changed circumstances, might have lost its relevence. @Kapadia : Feb 01 (11:17AM) Correctly observed. It's a tool to stop runaway discussions into infinity, which might lead to insult wars. Hopefully, it'll serve the needs of all bloggers. @admins: When needed (purely optional), please reply with a tail piece summarizing and concluding the discussion, before locking it. Thanks. @moderator**: Re# 19756-0 As can be seen above, the Archive/Lock feature was introduced 1.5 years back to control runaway discussions. At that time, we used to have many more flame wars and abusive, emotion-laden arguments going nowhere. Requests to stop commenting were not honoured. People would keep adding to the discussion, and such comments at the tail-end had to be repetitively deleted. The only alternative was to remove the whole entry. Otherwise, that entry would keep bubbling to the top and someone had to delete the last post. Archiving/Locking was a way to... more... |