Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
If a topic hasn't been posted to for a period, say 30 days, then i think that it should be archived/closed. People would be able to view these topics in the archive but not be able to post to them. This would prevent topics that were posted months, in some cases even years ago, being dragged back up.
Any thoughts?
Claire, this sounds like a good idea.
The other thing I've been wondering is should we close a topic after so many posts? maybe not close it, but create a second page, as after so many posts, it takes ages for the page to load.
Right now we have a game running with over a thousand posts, which isn't a bad thing, but it can take forever for the page to load.
not sure if that would work kev, the easier thing to do then would be for someone who is playing the game to create a new post say ... word association 2 ... and indicate that this is a follow-on from the original topic.
Claire, I think that this is a godd idea. There have been times where I havent' been on the zone for weeks and I come back to see the same topics in the most recent as when I wnet. Apart from anything else, it's kinda dull, like do we never move on? Also, on a whole new slant, I think that the game topics should be moved so they're not in the main board listings, but with the games. Would this not make more sense?
I do like that idea yes Claire about putting a hault to topics after a set length of time. Perhaps up the limit a bit though to say, 60 or even 90 days? But yes, agree with the principal.
It would stop stupid things happening like a recent insident when Stephen's topic attacking KC8PNL was brought back to the top, and people were arguing with the original poster, in spite of the fact that his account had been disabled for heaven knows how long, in a board topic that hadn't been posted too for at least 9 months! lol. That's where I'd love to see something like this because even as I was reading the fresh posts I did think that it was crazy that it was still going on after all this time and that closing it would have seemed like a sensible thing to do.
rofl, that would have made amusing reading.... shame i didn't see it, but i'm not bored enough to go looking for it again,
Harp, I like your idea, if we're sure we are talking about the same thing. Do you mean 90 days after the post was initiated, or 90 days after the last post. If you are talking about 90 days after post was initiated, then I can't agree because people may still be posting to the topic. However, if no one has posted to a topic in 90 days, then I say archive (or even delete) the topic.
Just my thoughts,
Bob
No I think we mean after the last post. At least, that's what I meant! lol. I'm sure Claire meant that too. They won't delete topics I know that much. We've sort of had this disgussion before and the admin's said then that they wish to keep everything, which is fair enough. But at least make them read only after they've fallen from grace so that old rubbish doesn't get dragged up unnecessarily.
Why shouldn't they be dragged up again? #What's the problem with it? I mean ... I can't see anything bad about that.
I personally don't agree with closing Board topics after a limitted time. While it would be nice for some topics to have an ending, some others might want to be posted to again and it might happen to be at a way later time. For instance, say someone asks for help with something or brings up an interesting discussion, and for whatever reason, there have been responses, but then the hiscussion just dies for awhile because noone can think of what to add for the time. Then if someone does think of something new to add and the post is already locked, they won't be able to post unless they ask. I know there can be a new discussion made, but I rather have one big discussion about the same thing going instead of having to make new discussions about the same thing. If the page will take longer to load, I actually agree with some of the ideas on wraith's "View Latest Posts" discussion. I do think that there should be some exceptions of course, but that could probably be up to the admins or CL's, for example whenn a discussion that primarily involves someone picking on other users or that has turned too much into a fight. For example, the posts involving Goblin, the one of the CL's, and The Roman Battle Mask, that had been brought back up might have been blocked after a certain amount of time since there would be no point to continue the discussion anyway, being that someone just had an issue with someone else at the time and there had been responses, but after a few months that those kinds of discussions haven't been posted to, the discussion would probably be over anyway as the originator of the discussion has moved on themselves. However, for most discussions, I don't think it should be necessary to close them at all.
No. If they are there, I say, allow us to post to them. Maybe you or I would rather not see old garbage drug up, but, I don't want to play sensor. So, I was proposing that we get rid of older topics to save space, but if we are going to do it just so someone doesn't post to it, I say forget it. I don't have to read it.
Bob