Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150325130621/@comment-4984687-20150326085402

SuperSajuuk wrote:

@Rim: I'm sorry, but it just sounds like you are trying to force your personal opinion about people's archives onto others. Nobody else really seems to be agreeing with you, especially as you are wrong about how archives work: they work based on the age of the message, not on how many messages there are. You might have seen I've compressed up my archives just by adding to them, instead of creating new ones, since I don't feel a need to create more, but I don't do it because of the stupid archiving policy we have here: I don't even know of any wiki's that have such a policy (except having a policy like I have suggested).

As to your point of people abusing it: out of all the wiki's I've been on with it enabled, an almost non-existent percentage of users abused it (equating to just one person). There's no reason to concern yourself with users abusing it in any way. I was only arguing with Aldmeri because the way I see it we weren't understanding each other correctly. I don't see why an archive should be based on the date instead of the amount of messages. If someone has 100 messages on their talk page, they'd have to archive it because it would get too long. If someone has 7 years of messages on their talk page, but still 16 messages, it dosn't make sense to archive it.

Your point on the abuse part is quite ironic, since you said we should remove badges since users could abuse them, even though they barely don't. The amount of abuse for certain aspects isn't important, it's the fact that it could happen and how abuse can be prevented in the first place.