Occasionally, while I am waiting for other things to finish on my computer, I will go to SL and hit the random page button. I have two pet peeves about this and wondered how to propose a change.

1. Pages which say nothing more than "Hi, I'm Joe and I hope to be pro one day" and have not been updated in 10 years. Surely these can be purged.

2. Randomly landing on an answer page instead of the problem page. Surely the random feature can be modified to exclude these, or to go to the problem page if a solution page is randomly selected.

Occasionally, while I am waiting for other things to finish on my computer, I will go to SL and hit the random page button. I have two pet peeves about this and wondered how to propose a change.

1. Pages which say nothing more than "Hi, I'm Joe and I hope to be pro one day" and have not been updated in 10 years. Surely these can be purged.

2. Randomly landing on an answer page instead of the problem page. Surely the random feature can be modified to exclude these, or to go to the problem page if a solution page is randomly selected.

(tapir in 2012): What I am looking for is a way to reduce the amount of homepages of long forgotten KGS accounts, jokes nobody is laughing at anymore etc. without impeding the openness to all kinds of stuff, for which I love SL and without anyone actually going around and deciding what humour page to keep or delete, which only would produce bad blood (one shouldn't police jokes imho). I already initiated sth. similar for complaints pages, see Day of Amnes(t)y - to keep SL open for people complaining while reducing the heaps of old complaints about KGS admins... I would love to get feedback on the general (sketchy) idea - it is nowhere close to happening now.

Random page isn't a Go oracle giving you deep meaningful answers. (Although excluding subpages and homepages may be a good idea.)

L19 isn't a SL feature/policy discussion, there are several pages feat. discussions on the topic. I am proposing sth. like this for ages, if feedback is staying outside SL it will hardly matter.[/qoute]

Not sure what you are trying to say, but if you read my post you will see that I was asking for information because I could not find it myself. No one has yet answered my question.

But if random page doesn't return the short homepages, how else will you find them to clean them up?

But if random page doesn't return the short homepages, how else will you find them to clean them up?

Not sure what you are trying to say, but if you read my post you will see that I was asking for information because I could not find it myself. No one has yet answered my question.

Being inactive for years doesn't mean the person doesn't come back later on. As I recall, Dr. Straw was once also inactive from the community for a period of years.
I'd hate to be someone who comes back years later and thinking of updating his homepage on SL only to find it deleted by some random admin while I was inactive.

I think the intro pages are worthwhile and should be kept regardless of the creators' continued activity. Any info about who is posting the "facts" on sensei's seems important to me, so as long as a user's other contributions remain I don't see that a self introduction can ever become obsolete.

[..] If someone has posted something else their page should remain.

What exactly would be this “something else”, and who would decide how much of “something else” would qualify them to stay? And how would we know whether they are not just some of these “small” people who themselves don’t create any content but only correct some typos here and there?

I think “homepages” should be honoured as their creator’s place. As little as may be on somebody others page there, I think deleting such a page would show disrespect.

Greetings, Tom

[..] The page which prompted this thread was one created in 2005. I forget exactly what is said now, but the gist was that the owner had just discovered go (probably through HNG) and was going to be a pro in a couple of years. Nothing else was said, or has been since. That person probably quit playing a few months later when he realized it was not possible.