Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150325130621/@comment-4544033-20150325205528

I would say we keep it at 25, maybe lower it to 20, and allow editors the exception if the messages are at least six months to a year old.

Some editors who are not admins get a lot of messages. My first archive (lasting from when I joined to being given patroller rights) has shows I was being messaged at times every day. Editors who are a lot more active will see more messages, and because these are the editors that are seen more, their message walls where the ones first in their minds when the rules where worked out.

The rule was put in place because people where archiving their messages one at a time, they where trying to maintain a system that prevented problems they felt where occurring. They did not do this to be dictators are to piss you off. The rule may be a little hard now, but that dosnt mean it needs to be gutted, or that it was wrong at the time.