LogFAQs > #917329958

Well, this is good change for sure. Though we're currently at a 10 day purge rate, it hasn't been 10 full days since the new purge rates have been put in place, so we could still build up enough topics to potentially reach the 5 day purge rate. During the contest season, I expect the board to be on a 5 day purge rate due to the increased activity (and possibly even a 2 day purge rate).

DanKirby posted...

The way it's worded makes me think the system is slightly different: whether a topic is purged when the cleanup system runs depends on both the position of the topic on the topic list and how long ago the topic was last posted in.
For example, assuming 50 topics per page, any topic on Pages 5-8 that hasn't been posted in in over 10 days will be purged. However, if there are topics on Page 4 that are also more than 10 days inactive, they will not be purged at that time. Also, if enough topics build up that the board passes the 401 mark, only the topics on Page 9-15 will be purged at the 5-day mark, while the topics on Pages 4-8 will remain as long as they are still under the 10-day threshold.

Should also be noted that stickied topics apparently don't count towards the purge rate. We currently have one stickied topic on this board, so you would have to begin counting the total topics from the first non-stickied topic. This means we wouldn't cross over into the 5 day purge rate until reaching 402 topics as we have one stickied topic on this board.
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