Thread closing by timing

Thread closing by timing

They should make it a rule if a thread does not have more than 5 or 10 posts in one hour the thread will be deleted. The forums will be filled then with more popular threads and anyone using the new posts section will be able to navigate easier. Another idea is making it deleted if it does not reach 15 or 20 posts in a day. Just a suggestion.

That seems pretty pointless. There are countless threads throughout the Forum that people are slow to react to. These can be things from RP threads to intellectual debates where people need time to reply.

If a thread is dead, the simple option is for the moderators to prune it, although I don't even advise doing this unless in sections where the threads are pointless or post count doesn't rise. If you do it then you'll just have repercussions of old threads over time. Plus, how pissed would you be if, say you spent ages on a thread only to return and find it deleted?

This is the most ridiculous suggestion I have ever heard.

It was just a suggestion. But i have seen threads go up to 20 in one day. A lot of forums get flooded with posts and that leads to servers being down for cleaning and such. Its just a suggestion. You could extend the times maybe for like 3 days.

look this post is just at 4 replioes right now, it could make 5 in one hour easy, It would help clean out pointless threads that have 1 or 2 and have been sitting around the forums for weeks

5 in one hour? That's absurd. I wouldn't even consider such a thing for 5 in one day.

look this is at 4 replies right now, and has been going for about 15 minutes. i am just saying if a thread does not make at least 5 or 10 posts in one hour it should be deleted to keep the forums with plenty of space.

You must be kidding me. I'm siding with KK on this one, most threads probably don't even get five posts in one day, much less in one hour. During times like school hours, people aren't around to make that many posts in one thread. Eventually, the bulk of the threads in the forum would end up locked.

Something more reasonable would be: Lock it if there are no posts in one or two months. See, that would mean the thread is dead, with no postential to be active ever again. Even if by some chance it does get revived, revived threads are locked anyway.

EDIT: Try to count the space on the internet. =O

well thats what i'm saying when u say most of them don't get more than 5 posts in a day then what i'm saying is that we should delete them. Think about how good the forums will be doing. No need to worry about space then.

For example, say someone asks a question, about an avator or something in a thread, and it takes 2 or 3 people to answer it, and no one else answers it then and in one hour it gets deleted and people move on...

...there is no problem right now with space. In fact, if they were deleted, there would still be clutter.

You see, the mods have a certain way of "deleting" threads. They aren't physically deleted, just moved to a little forum nobody can see called the "Trash". Now, if threads got deleted left and right, the trash forum would fill up quite a bit, right?

The thing is, the forum is not active enough for you to suggest such a thing. People will eventually post in threads, making them active, but there is absolutely no need to delete a thread when it doesn't get five posts.

EDIT: If there is a thread like that, and the question is answered, we find it qick enough and lock it. See, everything works out ^-^.

However, what if the thread was one of important discussion, and all of a sudden it goes away? People would get angry that their important discussion got deleted for no real reason besides no one had posted in it for an hour.

Its better having trash fill up then the forum, and by the way i don't even think the trash does fill up, it just gets deleted into thin air,

Originally Posted by Gex1125

Its better having trash fill up then the forum, and by the way i don't even think the trash does fill up, it just gets deleted into thin air,

We don't delete threads like that. They are saved for future reference, and if tons and tons of threads got deleted into thin air, there would be no way to ever look back at them again.

Just trust me on this one, there is no problem at all with filling things up. Eventually, a thread dies and it's like having it deleted anyways. Active threads stay on the front page, and dead ones fall back to the second or third.

thats what i'm saying, look back to my example about the avator question, no one would want to look back at it, and some are just useless threads about nothing, and also they should only save the interesting or dead pinned threads then (another suggestion)

Originally Posted by Gex1125

thats what i'm saying, look back to my example about the avator question, no one would want to look back at it, and some are just useless threads about nothing, and also they should only save the interesting or dead pinned threads then (another suggestion)

If anything like that was installed (that got rid of threads in x amount of time if x amount of people don't post) ALL threads would be deleted, important or not. That's the problem - if a thread is dead, it moves to the bottom and it doesn't need to be deleted to get out of the way. And if an imporant thread got deleted, that just... well, wouldn't be a good thing.

Yeah only the ones that had less than 5 posts in an hour, the big ones like 24 or the ones that go into the hundreds would stay. Not all of them. And also the administrators could overurle this if they found a small topic, that is interesting, they could just pin the topic then. It would save lots of space. There are tons of ancient posts lying around.

Look, the point is, that suggestion would help nothing. If anything, it would encurage people to post fast, thus lowering the quality of the posts, to make sure the threads don't get deleted.

Useless threads are removed from the forum by the mods.

There is no reason to do work to do what you propose.

And what do you care which threads the mods save?

I agree with Sear

Originally Posted by Gex1125

Yeah only the ones that had less than 5 posts in an hour, the big ones like 24 or the ones that go into the hundreds would stay. Not all of them. And also the administrators could overurle this if they found a small topic, that is interesting, they could just pin the topic then. It would save lots of space. There are tons of ancient posts lying around.

Only important topics are pinned. Real important topics. Not random littl ethreads that would otherwise not need to be saved.

Look - if a thread is worthless and inactive, we delete it manually. If a thread is old, it goes away by itself through the magic of "falling down the page."

Like HAB said, it wouldn't help the forums at all. If anything, it would create disorder and chaos, because the issue of saving threads would become so large (because every thread gets deleted), that every topic in the forum is pinned, and all of a sudden the whole addon to the forum is useless because people want their threads.

It just doesn't work.

Look guys it is just a suggestion, it would help out the administrators becuase they work hard. You don't HAVE to use it, although it would conserve space in Z.U.F.

Space? Hah. That's not an issue.

Right. That's enough of that.

we could always work at the number of posts to make it more managable maybe just 2 in one hour or something.