Yikes.. I missed reading the last page of this thread
Will be back to edit in further.....
Sorry
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You know, ever since we created the Deleted threads storage I've hated that place with a vengeance. I really, REALLY would like to see it gone altogether. To my mind, no threads should be deleted at all but rather locked and allowed to sink as other threads replace it.
Does it make the forums more cluttered? I don't think so. Perhaps that might be the case in Business – but then I'm all for moving threads from there (e.g. after they've been locked for e.g. 2 months) over to 'Threads of Historical Interest'. Archiving them so to speak (another 'record-keeping' job for the Mayor?
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Bandwidth? While here we don't have to worry about that and I think it's way too early to worry about that in any case
Threads that are a 'mistake' and are locked upon threadstarter request don't accumulate many posts and hence won't take up much space at all. Besides, if it really becomes an issue later on (which I doubt it will) then it can always be re-discussed again.
I subscribe 100% to Jny's suggested wording:
As a matter of policy substantive conversation threads can be locked but not deleted; and a Binding Vote of the membership would be required to delete exceptional threads or groups of threads.
except I would apply it to ALL threads.
What to do with the threads that are currently in Deleted storage? Get rid of them. They are mostly very old Ranger/Admin threads of how to do this or that and have now been replaced by better organized FAQ threads.
Get rid of the deleted threads storage forum entirely. We are transparent
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