Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31234217-20170606232934/@comment-24577221-20170608155704

I guess I'm not seeing how this proposal decreases my workload. I'd still have to be checking for "bad" changes such as repeated entries, as well as having to do the work of transferring "good" changes to the list. People wouldn't be able to do the permitted monthly "bump" without my having to take care of it. It would prevent people from causing direct damage to the list, (i.e., messing with other people's entries), but that's actually fairly rare, and I'd still have to be fixing damage that people did to the forum post instead so that I could transfer those entries.

WDKinc: I don't think there's a way of automating that kind of thing. Occasionally I go through the list and remove entries that are more than a year old. I do that by going to the list's history to get the list version that's a year old, cleaning it up to get just the codes, then deleting all lines in the current list that include any of those codes. It's not very difficult, thanks to a nice little software tool I wrote a couple of decades ago. But I kind of have to do it that way because people don't always add their codes at the top of the list; sometimes at the bottom, and occasionally in the middle (which always seems weird to me, but it's up to them). Now that we're using the monthly sections, that will make that process easier.