Remove Old Threads: Possibility

Yea, I bumped some. Should have paid more attention. Granted some of the old threads are good to read I do understand that they are insanely old. I think, not sure how many of you would agree, that maybe a possible solution with dealing with the old threads is to simply rid of them all together. Those deemed important should remain, but those with no significance and no replies could be removed. Other than me, who goes and reads all the stuff from ten years ago?

 

no
keep them all
every once in a while I think people still go back and read them
some have good info, others are plain funny
they're part of the forum's history

 

Other than me, who goes and reads all the stuff from ten years ago?

everyone.

 

The really old threads could be locked. Like the ones from eight years ago.

 

Does this look familiar to anyone?

 

Usually, when I'm looking for info, I find an old thread from 2006-2011. They help alot. They should still be locked due to some members replying to year old topics.

 

I strongly object to this idea. Getting rid of old threads is getting rid of CSTSF history. Useless threads are made throughout all eras of a forum's history, why target those from a specific time period? How can the community agree on what constitutes a useless thread? The vote would almost never be unanimous. This would also be a lot of unnecessary work with just about no payoff.

I'm assuming that your goal in this is to prevent new members from necroposting like you recently did. Post dates are clearly visible on posts, and that warning Captain Fabulous posted appears at the top of all threads that haven't had a post for 2 months. New members have no excuse not to notice these things, so there's not much else we can do without obnoxiously shoving warnings in people's faces at every turn.

I'm not trying to condemn you for the necropost that caused you to start this thread, we've all made mistakes here; I'm just trying to stress that this is a problem that's never going to go away. For as long as this forum remains, we will continue to get new members who bump threads unnecessarily, whereupon they hopefully learn from their mistake.

 

Usually, when I'm looking for info, I find an old thread from 2006-2011. They help alot. They should still be locked due to some members replying to year old topics.

I find this especially true with the modding threads. A lot of helpful info is from very old topics and posts, since a lot of research on CS was being done a long while ago. I thus highly object to removing old posts.

 

Why don't we just delete all the threads. Then no one will ever double post, spam post, shit post, or necro post, and everyone will finally be happy.

 

Ban the forums when

 

Yea, I bumped some. Should have paid more attention. Granted some of the old threads are good to read I do understand that they are insanely old. I think, not sure how many of you would agree, that maybe a possible solution with dealing with the old threads is to simply rid of them all together. Those deemed important should remain, but those with no significance and no replies could be removed. Other than me, who goes and reads all the stuff from ten years ago?

Listen, it's okay to make mistakes. There isn't really a need to worry yourself over them. Pretty much everyone here has bumped an old thread before.

 

The old topics are the part of the Skeleton Army now
You can't disband the Skeleton Army
Ever

 

Proof we should not dispose of the old threads is easy to get...http://www.cavestory.org/forums/threads/1609/

 

that isn't even stickied anymore and you still managed to pick out the greasiest thread in the entire forum
congratulations

 

that isn't even stickied anymore and you still managed to pick out the greasiest thread in the entire forum
congratulations

it's a legitimate source of yandere-ko interaction related knowledge

 

Does this look familiar to anyone?

That's clearly an ad.

 

I feel like I should say something, but everyone has already said everything I could.

 

That's clearly an ad.

One that isn't working. I'll need to send it back to our marketing division.

 

Does this look familiar to anyone?

Doesn't look familiar to me. Didn't even have my name on it.