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| While I'm at it - it's probably worth giving you some sense of the scale of the data that would be saved. That last sentence I wrote is basically roughly the same amount of data that a user name takes up, including all its other fields across every table in the database. At most, I'd save about a thousand of those across the whole database. In contrast, Barbelith has 480,000 posts in the database, pretty much all of them longer than one line. It has 36,000 completed moderation tasks stored in the database and 70,000 private messages. Every post that is deleted still has to be kept for legal reasons, every private message similarly - so that's 20,000 deleted private messages and 7,000 deleted posts from the main board that no one sees that we're still saving. In the meantime, we're still - after seven (?) years - still only using half of my storage on the server. The amount of space saved by getting rid of a thousand user names would be ridiculously trivial and - frankly - would be more expensive in terms of my time (if I were to bill for it) than it would save in the next hundred years. |
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