Closing threads after no new posts

[metallicafreq]

hey guys,

dont know if this has already been suggested but maybe you could put in a feature that will automatically close a thread if there have been no new posts on it in a certain period of time, say 1 or 2 months? this would stop people dragging up old threads or polls coz they want to be a smart arse (as i have read some people say)

just a thought

[Darcy321]

I agree, however I don't see why closed polls and threads aren't deleted, theres over 50 pages of threads, it is unlikely someone will dredge through them all before making a new thread, perhaps closed threads or those that no longer apply could even be deleted?

[linton]

There is some threads that this would be no good for though, such as the sporting threads (Cricket, AFL, NRL, V8's, Formula 1 threads) that only get posts in their season.

There was a mass pruning of old threads about a year ago (I think it had to do with lack of space?) but there has since been upgrades etc, so its not required.
Everyones post count dropped all of a sudden, Older members seemed a lot newer :p

[-dan-]

There is some threads that this would be no good for though, such as the sporting threads (Cricket, AFL, NRL, V8's, Formula 1 threads) that only get posts in their season.

There was a mass pruning of old threads about a year ago (I think it had to do with lack of space?) but there has since been upgrades etc, so its not required.
Everyones post count dropped all of a sudden, Older members seemed a lot newer :pPosts: 1,777 http://forums.eyo.com.au/images/reputation/reputation_pos.gifhttp://forums.eyo.com.au/images/reputation/reputation_pos.gif (133)

Cool

[metallicafreq]

There is some threads that this would be no good for though, such as the sporting threads (Cricket, AFL, NRL, V8's, Formula 1 threads) that only get posts in their season.

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maybe there could be a section where sporting threads can be kept and then disable the automatic shut off feature in that section only?

[Tsargrad]

Sounds like a lot of effort.

The best option would be to stop idiots using computers. That would eliminate the need for the protecting of bumping irrelevant stuff.

[AJ]

Totally agree with you there Tsar, sounds to complicated to be bothered with :p
Maybe auto delete after say 2/3 years?

[thornton melon]

Surely if no responses are added after 30 days,they are useless!!!
Let's clear the dead threads

[redbears]

Any decisions to close threads will be done by the mods. Points noted.. ;)

[Tonti]

The annoying thing is that when you delete a thread everyone loses any posts in it. When they deleted the word association and the linked word thing I lost half my posts :D.

[linton]

The annoying thing is that when you delete a thread everyone loses any posts in it. When they deleted the word association and the linked word thing I lost half my posts :D.
And you wonder why we did it? :eek:

[nsu]

Some posts of value are left there because someone might do a search and find something useful. Also Google also indexes these forums.

[petefletch]

Also Google also indexes these forums.
So if threads were deleted we would get even more "page cannot be displayed" from Google. :)

I've often wondered how Google prunes out the non-existent links (or if they do), because sometimes there seems to be a lot of them.

[linton]

So if threads were deleted we would get even more "page cannot be displayed" from Google. :)

I've often wondered how Google prunes out the non-existent links (or if they do), because sometimes there seems to be a lot of them.
Depended if they had refreshed their cache yet.

[debs]

The annoying thing is that when you delete a thread everyone loses any posts in it. When they deleted the word association and the linked word thing I lost half my posts :D.
Can I suggest that the Franz Ferdinand garage session thread have all its posts moved into the general Garage Session thread. I don't think we need two garage session threads in the Triple M (MMM) Freq Club Forum. Thank you. :)

Edit 12:10pm Saturday: Hey it works! If you post a request enough times in the right places someone does take notice. Thank you Forum Moderators thank you thank you thank you. I'm happy again now. :)

[HoundsOfLove]

The annoying thing is that when you delete a thread everyone loses any posts in it. When they deleted the word association and the linked word thing I lost half my posts :D.


So what there is no prize for having the most post count! :rolling:

[AJ]

it makes them feel *special* like they contribute valuable things, when mostly all we seem to talk about it the exact opposite :p

[Tonti]

So what there is no prize for having the most post count! :rolling:

BUT I want to be a Valued Forum Member! WAAAAAH! :)

[kat]

hey tonti - I'll swap with you - to only be 500-600 again *sigh*- I'm all for the pruning - I can't say I've had a good look around the mmm section, but the last time I did there were a *few* obsolete threads cluttering up my view - very annoying when you know there's a thread somewhere on topic X and the search doesn't bring it up in the title and you have to trawl through the whole forum (well the mmm forum is pretty small relatively)
- but i must say that overall I reckon that the mods are doing a pretty nice job of tidying things up and the time this takes is appreciated by all of us :)