Old expired or out of date posts

[Monty]

I was browsing through the forums today and noticed there was really a lot of outdated threads still listed and wasting space. For example, I found one asking for prayers for an ill member who since has expired. Another was for an item for sale that was sold but never deleted, and several others. So if the forum gets slow sometimes I see a lot of old posts wasting space and out of date cluttering things up. I am checking mine to see if I can toss a few, how about you? Monty

 

[jeff of pa]

the bad thing I see about doing that Monty
is If you take out threads, Members who
watch their post counts like they mean somthing,
actually get upset & Blame us for deleting their
posts & Accuse us of Censorship

 

[Iron Patch]

I certainly wouldn't want the job of going through a couple of million posts to delete the old ones!

 

[Tuberale]

If the post topic is not something being regularly added to, perhaps it is time to kill it to reduce server space? Anyone can open up a topic again just by starting an initial post.

I'm not all that interested in how many posts I made personally. But older posts take up space that could be used to post photos of more recent finds. I don't even try to open threads with more than 50 responses now: my old computer can't handle 'em. Just my opinion.

 

[GopherDaGold]

the bad thing I see about doing that Monty
is If you take out threads, Members who
watch their post counts like they mean somthing,
actually get upset & Blame us for deleting their
posts & Accuse us of Censorship

Tough crap! I'd sacrifice a few posts to improve bandwidth any day.
Same goes for the multiple threads on the same topic. How many times do I have to read about lost miners? Sheesh!

 

[savant365]

the bad thing I see about doing that Monty
is If you take out threads, Members who
watch their post counts like they mean somthing,
actually get upset & Blame us for deleting their
posts & Accuse us of Censorship

You could just do away with "post counts" and put the members join date there instead. Everyone would know how long someone has been a member and the meaningless posts and post counts would be gone.

 

[bazinga]

Or, the mods could lock posts that ask the same questions that were asked the day before.

Seriously, how many of the following posts do we need:

What detector should I get?
What headphones do you recommend?
Can I hunt in a cemetery?
Are Parks ok to hunt?
etc
etc

If people just cut back on HALF of their 'Nice Job' posts on Today's Finds, that would probably make a huge difference.

 

[thrillathahunt]

you mean 'nice find' posts

 

[Monty]

The one in particular was for an ill member, but he died! It's kind of distressing to see it still active and asking for prayers for him to get well. That's the kind I meant. I guess some persons can't police their own posts but most of us are smart enough to do it. I wasn't referring to anyone's finds. It's just a suggestion. If you delete your own posts, there wouldn't be any reason to blame it on the moderators. Monty

 

[greydigger]

Nice find !