Suggestion Related threads, wow some are OLD!!!

[StSomewhere]

The related threads feature is very cool... Except...

A lot of times these threads are on the order of 2 years old. So what happens is the old threads get revived.

What would everyone think about automatically locking threads with no responses in the past 3, 6, 12 months? So the history is there but the discussion is current?

 

[Walter]

Actually, some of the best information might be in the older threads.

 

[StSomewhere]

Actually, some of the best information might be in the older threads.

Agree.

I'm just wondering if it makes sense to reopen the old thread, or start fresh. Either way is OK with me.

 

[crpntr133]

Always wondered what happened to old threads..kinda know now. I would think that some have gotten deleted though.

 

[Ted S]

A few threads are deleted here and there but you can still see many of our first posts... infact our very first post on this forum is still here (we had a few thousand posts on a previous system that were lost at one point) http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?p=1 .

 

[Kim]

A few threads are deleted here and there but you can still see many of our first posts... infact our very first post on this forum is still here (we had a few thousand posts on a previous system that were lost at one point) http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?p=1 .

The only problem with that link is according to the message I don't have enough privileges to access it!!!! I also noticed yesterday when I was trying to do a search on the book 'The Last Dive' that even though I set the search to posts a year old or older, I didn't get any results from before 2003. For some reason I seem to be blocked from older threads!?

 

[Walter]

I couldn't follow that link either. I assumed it was moved to the back room.

 

[Ted S]

Search results are limited to the first 500 matches so you'll only see the newer threads by default. As for thread 1 it has no value, its just a new member saying hello and someone else responding 2 years later (that may be why it got pulled -- bringing back a very old thread for no reason).

 

[Walter]

It would be nice to be able to read post number 1 just for historical reasons.