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Old Dec 18, 2014 | 11:09 am
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Originally Posted by IBobi
Are you certain you are clicking through to threads that were moved to another public location, and not threads that were deleted or moved to a private forum?
Don't think these were deleted or privatized - from the thread titles, they seem innocuous.

Originally Posted by IBxAnders
The thread redirection is not permanent and may be set by the moderator that moved the thread originally to expire in X number of days. Meaning that the behavior you're describing will occur when that redirect expires.
I suspected that there was a setting that someone - administrator, moderator - could set...this is most likely the case, particularly in view of the comment below.

Originally Posted by jackal
Wait, so setting a redirect to expire doesn't actually remove the redirect from the forum view but simply makes the link cease working?

In that case, I can't possibly see the utility of the "expire" option and probably won't ever use it again, since the only reason I ever used it was to make it so the redirect didn't clutter up the forum after it ceased to be useful.
If you are going to use "expire" I vote for a 48-hour timeframe - that should be enough for most of us to catch up on our subscription emails.
(I appreciate mods' diligence in keeping the forest of threads pretty organized, which seems to have increased in the past year or so - just want to be able to follow something that has been moved!)

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