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« on: July 25, 2006, 08:05:37 PM »
Does every thread ever created (even the odd "joke" threads I keep falling for...thank you Bob) stay forever on the boards?

I mean, we're up to like 7 or 8 pages of threads and it's a bit overwhelming to try and swim through all of them. It seems if a topic hasn't been commented on for a certain number of days or whatever it could be deleted. It may not be that people aren't interested, but with 7+ pages of topics it's hard to notice them all.

And is it just me or is the prospect of reading 8+ pages of comments enough to make you ill? And I know in many cases after the fourth page or so, people just start repeating what's already been said in older posts. By page 8+ the thread is pretty much back where it started.

Is there a way to rein in the wild out of control threads and weed out the dead ones?

Just wondering...and doing my part to increase the number to topic pages.  ;D

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Re: Old Threads
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2006, 10:54:22 PM »
This would be Iago's call, but I'm a packrat, so I'm kinda against deleting old posts until it becomes a db-stability issue.

That said, it's unusual for newer topics to wander off past page 2 quickly.
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