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Old postings - 6/19/2003 11:04 AM   
CoosBayLumber


 

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Status: offline 		You need to cut off the reply responce time to inquieries to about 1-2 weeks or maybe a month after the origina or last reply. Other forums on the web do this, as a responce to a paragraph initiated 1-2 months ago, or last year are seldom read by the person who posts, nor understood quite some time later.

If a post gets a responce 1-2 time per week, let it run. There are a few forums on the web that have a time limit such that if no additional replies or comments occur after a week past the last one, no more replies are permitted. It physically stops any more replies. If there is an ongoing conversation that is OK, but if beyond about 2 weeks since the last reply, the content of the original conversation gets meaningless and lost. The computer, internet and CAD oriented forums elsewhere are like this now, as often time the subject gets turned away from the original inquiery and become meaningless chit-chat.

Just as old advertisements for items are meaningless, so are old inquieries or posts, and as such should not expect a responce from the original person posting.

Leave the post and replies in the archives so that they can be reffered to, but do not permit an untimely reply.


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Old postings - 6/19/2003 12:05 PM   
MikeL



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Status: offline 		The nature of our hobby lends itself to long-running projects, accompanied by long-running threads. So long as the replies are topical and the subject isn't time sensitive, I don't see a problem.

There've been times when I'll find a bit of info some time after a discussion has wound down, and I'll want to add it in. I don't see the benefit in closing inactive threads.

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Old postings - 6/22/2003 8:17 AM   
RCadmin



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Status: offline 		I think that older threads die and go away if they are in fact not pertinent...if such is the case they usually don't bubble up again. I haven't seen a forum that does what you mention above. I don't even know a forum software package that supports this?

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Old postings - 6/22/2003 9:31 AM   
David Cutler



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Status: offline 		[QUOTE]Originally posted by RCadmin
I haven't seen a forum that does what you mention above. I don't even know a forum software package that supports this? [/QUOTE]

Marc,

Short of just allowing a thread to scroll off the forum (which I know you don't do, as you have enough storage for this not to be necessary) I don't think you'll find forum software that will sort the threads and stop ones that are dormant.

At least, if you do, I would be very interested to know, as I help out in a couple of forums on the 'net where that would be a very useful function and I've spent hours over the years trying to find it.

Anyway, IMHO, in this hobby of ours, things stay relevant for years; decades even!

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