I'm aware there is another thread, but it was quite blank and not exactly the most flexible with solutions and situations. Please tell me (Mods/Admins/Helpers) if this counts as duplicating.

Anyways, as simple as the idea goes, filter for the Giving Tree.
I'm not talking filtering everything thing out like bugs and whatnot, just the absolutly mass of event items such as Muddy stuff and *shudders* dreaded Water items.

Those things, are the WORST to find clogging up the GT, especially since a player can dump tens, if not, hundreds of those things in the GT and grabbing those things usually isn't worth the 1 hour wait for most.

BASICS
-Insert filter for JUNK event items; such as muddy bone/water items
-Bugs and common Random Event gains Will not be a filtered item seeing as
A) they can be crafted into smaller/compacted decors
B) You cannot gain more than a few dozen a day, everyday

Why?
A)The thrown out items STILL RETAINS THEIR ID #. Meaning, they are still taking up some of the server's space. Meaning they contribute to lag!(From what I've heard)

B)In the span of 15minutes, some users have thrown out about 200-300 "Junk"

C)Some users like to troll by tossing out things that are worth a lot, which results in the additional sub accounts/players that join and stay which is why we are getting lag spikes more and more often as some of you have noticed.
(Having a limit/Filter would quickly end these events once these items are stripped off the tree as now there are less competition/shorter wait times for an item to appear)

Downsides and questions
-The GT will be more empty
(Thats what we want to achieve, to make the GT something
-the more 'active' users will get the things
(in honesty, if you can't contribute 1-2 minutes, why bother?)
-The tree will clear out quickly
(Not if events like August droughts and December's wallowing hole is around, many often discard them rather than bury them due to the item's rarity)

USER SUGGESTIONS
N/a

ALT WAYS
Have a item cap per item
Meaning there can be only a certain amount of items (e.g. 50.)in the tree
The tree's 'storage' is unaffected
But there will be a limit set on each item, such as only 50 of each item can be held onto, any number given after that will be destroyed

Destroy all leftover items after rotation
Chances are the left overs are junk.
If we are to do this, we have to make sure the tree clears most of it's inventory (15-30 items per rotation?) or have a clear out time for when items appear (basically a time bomb)

So lets say
Item1 has been taken and a item2 takes it's space immediately. Item2 now has a 'lifespan' of x minutes before it will be deleted and the next item take it's place"