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Would be nice to have a link, when a post is quoted, to jump to that post.
That's a neato idea...
I'm interested what your thoughts are on how old threads can be resurrected?
Just curious what the policy is.
There is no official policy. We let most forum topics live on in perpetuity. The only exceptions are: 1.) those where conversations have gotten out of hand but I didn't want to remove the "meat" of the thread; 2.) sold or expired items in the Marketplace (when I'm made aware of same); and 3.) they are in-house announcements that don't require additional discussion.
There's no default expiration date on any topic. If you find an old topic that you'd like to revive or continue to discuss, you can certainly post a reply there and bring it back to the top.
Back in the rpls.com hey days, I remember that a lot of people would start new threads about old topics but they would add "TTT" to the end of the topic title. I think that was mainly because that forum didn't bring topics with new replies back to the top... they would just keep scrolling down the screen, so people would just create a new topic with "TTT" to get it back onto the first page. This is purely from memory, so I could be wrong about the specifics. Regardless, there was a reason that users felt the need to create new topics based on old topics and bring them back into the fold, and it just worked.
You do have me wondering now though, if we should be expiring topics a specified amount of time after the last reply. So if a topic goes stale for, say, 30 days, it gets automatically locked. If someone wanted to bring up that topic again, they could simply grab the URL and then create a new topic and reference the old topic.
I'm going to let this one simmer a bit, as I'm intrigued about the idea. Not sold on it at this point, just intrigued. It might be a nice way to bring an old topic current without bringing all the baggage along with it, but the referenced URL would allow those interested to dig into it. On the other hand, having the historical aspect of a specific topic in a single thread has its merits as well.
(I also appear to have done something wrong, as what I was quoting and my text appear as 2 different posts ???? )
Apparently you quoted, then clicked "Add Reply", then created an entirely new reply with your response (that's just a guess on my part). When quoting, you can just select the text you want to quote, click the quote button directly below the selected text, then just start typing your response.
