User talk:Wealedout/Archive2

Hi, you do know that you should only archive either when the page has become large enough (it will tell you) or when discussions are old? You should not archive active or recent discussions. A discussion where the last comment has been within the last few days, much less hours, is certainly not old. It can be fairly annoying for anyone trying to follow a conversations, but that is not on the wiki 24/7, to come back the next day and see a discussion archived. I'm not sure whether you are doing this out of mistaken understandings, or simply to infuriate people. but you shouldn't. ¬ «Ðêjh» (talk) 20:44, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

There is nothing technically wrong with his archive, other than being named incorrectly (it should be a subpage of the talk page, not the user page). The user page policy doesn't place a timeline on archiving. The fact that it is annoying and poor wiki etiquette to have current conversations archived is beside the point. -- Wyn 21:08, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Beyond the point of policy, maybe, but following wording of policy exactly has caused so many problems on this wiki, I'd have thought that people would start looking beyond that at some point. The point I was making was about etiquette, not policy, and that he seemed to be using archiving to disrupt a conversation simply because it had turned in a different direction. To give an extreme example, there is no policy to my knowledge that says "Please don't crash the wiki," (unless it has been added recently) but it is generally accepted that you shouldn't do it, because it would be, to put it lightly, disruptive. This is also disruptive and annoying, even if it is in a minor way. ¬ «Ðêjh» (talk) 21:21, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I've gotten banned for that and Brains was unable (or perhaps unwilling) to point out a specific policy I violated. -- Armond Warblade{{Bacon}} 22:13, 22 October 2008 (UTC)