years of unfollowed post need removed

[Indigosands]

Useless!?!?!?

Thousands of people are reading, learning from, and using information posted back to 2007. Just because someone hasn't replied to it doesn't make it useless. In fact, it could be argued that some stuff is such perfect information, no other discussion is needed.

We will not be deleting old content and old members from the site. Both of these are valuable.

Yep, me.. another newbie who has been researching the breeds I've been adding to my new flock. A few of the threads I've looked at on Wyandottes and such were from 2008-2009. I didn't need to start a new thread to find that info, it was already there. Not to mention as a longtime member of a different board, it can get a little annoying to the older members to have to deal with the same common newbie questions over and over. It's much better and easier to point them to either stickied or old threads for that info than clog the boards with two or three threads a month asking the same question.

ETA... and I just noticed your join date, are you requesting your old posts removed?

 

[SmallFarmChick]

I love old posts... The more the better! I love researching on here. I always find new info wether it's an old post or a new one!

 

[behrable]

old post with info to research are really great , but a post with 300 replys with an arguement that has nothing to do with tthe topic is what i think needs removed

 

[griffinkid02]

There is another aspect to this as well. When you start removing old threads, anyone who posted on tha thread and is still around will have their forum post number affected. This could affect titles and rankings. I don't know how long an infraction stays "on record" somewhere in some archive, even though it has expired, but that data too would be affected. I guess, long story short, what I'm saying is removing those old threads would actually generate a TON of work for the algorythms that run the site, as well as mindnumbing fact checking work, and flaming complaint

answering for the mods. It's really easier for everyone involved to just let them lay dead. Of course that doesn't address the problem that the bajillions of words laying around presents for people looking for a specific bit of info. It IS rather daunting to need a quick answer for something,d o a search, and even with the most specific and limiting search filter end up with thousands of pages worth of material. But until someone comes up with an elegant and streamlined solution to balance the two we just fall back on the Ole Reliable plan: Start a ne thread and ask the question again

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[ivan3]

behrable wote: old post with info to research are really great , but a post with 300 replys with an arguement that has nothing to do with tthe topic is what i think needs removed

That is the purpose of using Advanced Search: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/search-and-advanced-search-tutorial (oh, and when you have your parameters declared - USE THE SEARCH BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE).

Have fun!

 

[Georgia1984]

All of the old posts with useful information is why I love this forum. It is also why I don't post very often... Usually I can find answers to my questions just by searching for them.

 

[NanaKat]

Thank you Ivan3 for posting the link from the learning center. I printed that one off for my BYC folder. Very helpful tutorial.

I love the search mode and have found very useful information from those older threads.

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

I was just talking to some friends about this very subject!

We leave all old threads open on purpose. We figure RELEVANT posts to old threads may re-engage some old members and also dig up some very helpful info that was buried. We have some amazing content that is dug up like buried treasure.

There are some cases where we will individually lock old threads that get bumped that shouldn't be (irrelevant / outdated) but in most cases we leave them open.

 

[EweSheep]

Do the old "unanswered" threads get deleted after a period of time? I'm talking about an OP would ask a question and NO ONE ever replied, there fore that thread would just get 'lost' in the files of old BYC cache. Wouldn't it save your mega bytes of storage for the server???? There are alot of UNanswered threads, never being replied so I figure it might help the server's brain of storing MORE valueable information or would it just "too much work" or the server don't care how much information you pack in there that it NEVER runs out of memory space to hold all those information we put on BYC.