Well, it's been over a year since we moved over, and despite the comments in ezBoard's FAQ, the old board's still up and fine. And even further, it still ranks above both this board and the main rpgww.org site on Google for the RPGWW term (despite the fact that as I understand the algorithm, having a term in your domain name is supposed to maximize your PageRank for that term). So, does anyone have a good reason why I shouldn't go ahead and clear out the old forum, to move the purge process along or at the very least kill its PR?
There are a number of suggestions they give for hastening the purge process, and who knows how effective they actually are, but in terms of popularity doing this could only help this board. Duplicate content definitely does penalize PR on Google (as well as other search engines, so far as I know); though I'm not sure to what degree that applies beyond a full HTML code duplication, it certainly wouldn't be helping this forum to keep it up. It's not necessary as a backup as I've been keeping near-monthly forum backups since the move. And after a year I think we'll have had all the returning members we can assume to get; even if we haven't, this forum is still the third result for RPGWW, under the site itself and the old board.
So, are there any reasons I haven't thought of personally for not wiping the old forum and hopefully letting ezBoard finish the job once they get around to it?