Closing old threads
 

Maybe after a certain period of inactivity, (a month?) threads should be closed to further posting.

Someone could always reference the old thread with a link if useful information resided there.

why?

It seems to me that the noise to signal ratio is rather high the older the threads are.

Often, these old threads have links that are broken.

It seems that this board deals mainly with timely information -- information that becomes less useful when it gets old.

That old information will still be there, but a single new post would not place the entire thread at the top.

I must be missing something here, since it would seem that a "new" thread would likely be created by the same author(s) instead- with the same result- pushing whatever it is that you might be after farther down! No?

In any case, my rx and feeling was just exactly as the FD above, "why," but anything is just fine with me! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I can think of several threads that were revived after being dormant for more than a month, to good effect. One example is "The most embarrassing thing I've ever done to earn miles" (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/001367.html). It started with a lot of activity in June 1999, went dormant, had a lot more activity in October 1999, dormant again, and then (after a post to bring it forward) a lot more last month.

There are other cases where someone posts an update to a situation more than a month after the most recent discussion, and the update generates more discussion. Putting the update in a separate thread would lose the background info so it would require either a cross-reference or a summary.

So, I vote for keeping this as it is. Unused threads drop off the most-recent list anyhow, so they don't get in the way.

I've seen some very entertaining and informative threads someone has bought back from a couple of months back. Why fix it if it ain't broke?

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[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 08-16-2000).]

I don't agree.

I've been using the search feature to find many older interesting threads. If I want more information, I am going to make a post on that thread to bring it back up. Rather than posting a new thread, when someone will just link to the older one and no one will provide fresh insight.

Wow, one of the few ideas here I HIGHLY disagree with.....what would happen to Blondebomber's *A charts!!!!!!???????????????


Dorian



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[This message has been edited by EPS (edited 08-16-2000).]

I still think this is a good idea, maybe more than I did before.