Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150325130621/@comment-1251315-20150325203743

Atvelonis wrote: I don't think Ebony realized at the time how few messages most people get compared to administrators, that's why she made the minimum so high. If we keep the policy we could decrease the minimum number of messages needed for archiving, or we could just get rid of it altogether. Doesn't really matter to me either way. Yeah, admins that were active generally got a lot of messages, not realising that just about everyone else barely gets any. Even article talkpages are barely, if ever, used. So frankly, the entire idea that we must have 25 headings is pretty redundant, since 0.01% of members will hit that within a short time scale.

Abandoning the whole "25 messages for archiving" and just making it a simple "only archive old discussions" would be far better and leave it more flexible and up to the end user.