Are the oldest topics deleted?/What to do with old topics (SOLVED)

[viola]

Hey everyone! So now that our forum is older than 2 I was thinking it might be time to have this discussion. We have a few topics that are no longer relevant and have been locked.

My proposal, in order to keep things from getting too hard to find, is to make an archive board. Once a topic becomes irrelevant or inactive for say over a year, we can move it to a new Archive Board. That way our past history can be kept for reference and memories, but we can keep things from becoming too cluttered.

What are your thoughts and ideas? Do you think this is a good idea?

[Auxivele]

I think that makes sense. Sorry I don't have more to add...

[Yuuago]

Hey everyone! So now that our forum is older than 2 I was thinking it might be time to have this discussion. We have a few topics that are no longer relevant and have been locked.

My proposal, in order to keep things from getting too hard to find, is to make an archive board. Once a topic becomes irrelevant or inactive for say over a year, we can move it to a new Archive Board. That way our past history can be kept for reference and memories, but we can keep things from becoming too cluttered.

What are your thoughts and ideas? Do you think this is a good idea?

That sounds like a good idea.

Is there any criteria other than activity that would render a topic irrelevant? Certain niche-interest subjects, for example, don't get posted about very much, but it's still useful to have those threads open.

[viola]

That sounds like a good idea.

Is there any criteria other than activity that would render a topic irrelevant? Certain niche-interest subjects, for example, don't get posted about very much, but it's still useful to have those threads open.

When I say irrelevant topics I was mostly referring to things like "chapter 8 speculation" and "the forum's 1st birthday". Topics that haven't been posted in for over a year can be added, but we could put in a clause where if X amount of people request it be reopened, we move it back and reopen it.

[Yuuago]

When I say irrelevant topics I was mostly referring to things like "chapter 8 speculation" and "the forum's 1st birthday". Topics that haven't been posted in for over a year can be added, but we could put in a clause where if X amount of people request it be reopened, we move it back and reopen it.

OHH okay, that makes perfect sense, then.

[Athena]

The idea of an Archive board sounds good! Maybe a pinned favourites thread inside it would be good too, with links to the really interesting old threads. Right now it seems really chaotic trying to go back through old threads, and that would be good to bring a level of organization to it.

[viola]

I've started up a board for the archived topics, feel free to give suggestions and comments here.
Not all the topics have been added yet, what's there is a bit of a sample.

[JoB]

Once a topic becomes irrelevant or inactive for say over a year, we can move it to a new Archive Board.

but we could put in a clause where if X amount of people request it be reopened, we move it back and reopen it.

As far as I can see, it is in fact a move in that the topics (and the posts therein) can still be reached through the old hyperlinks. I'ld like to point out that that's an important feature, breaking the existing links and putting the topics into a board that people will exclude from searches more often than not would IMHO rob the topics of their chance of ever becoming active/reused again.

... otherwise, full agreement.