Thread/post deleting.

[coully]

coully,

I'm on Utopian's side on this one. I'm a great fan of clutter and deleting the old unsolds and the newer solds would only serve to straighten things up: this is bad, bad, bad for those of us like me who have, at the bottom of the stack, somewhere, newspapers dating back to when we first learned to read.



So moderators, when the uptake of a message is slow and one thinks because of the slowness that the posting did not occur, and one hits the submit button again, and then wants to delete the superfluous and redundant message, where is the delete button --- hmmm? Or should I just be happy that I have been able to be the reason for the accumulation of more clutter?

To funny bruce...i like it....simon...and you were saying....rofl

[AFDavis11]

I believe the delete function is based on a timer. It is only available for a certain amount of time.

I like CactusBob's approach, but as you can see we have many members who have different opinions on this point.

[Tony Miller]

I'm a member of the Fountain Pen Network forum and in their B/S/T type section they have an archives area as a sub-forum. Anything over something like 3 weeks old gets sent there for a record of what has sold and at what prices. Unsold items go as well and it's up to the owner to simply relist again in the current section.

It saves browsing though as many sold and unsold items when looking for something, yet all the post remain if needed, just in a separate area. Each day there are 20 to 60 posts of new things so it is escpecially important there as things quickly get pushed several pages back.

Tony

[coully]

Thanks tony for the info, that kinda summarises what I'd been getting at, but i still like deleting however getting an archive together is a good idea and would probably be a better alternative, with the way the guys were talking.

I appreciate the input,

regards,simon