mointernet
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- Apr 21, 2008
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I noticed a distinctive trend in the IM Journeys section, enthusiastic thread starters would often start off their journeys, actively keep it updated for a period of time (for months and some good ones even for years) but eventually the updates would come slow halt leading to then totally abandoned. Nothing wrong with that as humans tend to have other priorities and opportunities in life than to keep a thread alive but some abandoned threads often do get bumped to the 1st few pages by unawared members not realizing the OP hadn't been updating for quite a long while. While my point here is not to delete them off totally as the info & experience shared are worth gold & priceless but inactive threads without any further updates by the individual OPs should be marked and move to an archived section. They shouldn't be closed either as others can still comment and answered by other members or sometimes the OPs will want to revive their past journeys.
I propose to create a sub-section (one-level deep) in the IM Journeys section and move those inactive/abandoned threads there and mark them as "Archived". Threads will be still left opened for comments and if the OP wanted to update their own thread, it still be able to move back to the IM Journeys section. In this way, the existing journey section will be active with current and updated and not littered with 'dead' comments.
If extra help is needed, I can volunteer to clear this up but the way I do it is to only consistently move these inactive threads that are identified as "abandoned for a period of time" as and when they are bumped to the first 2 pages. The older threads behind will be left untouched unless they are being bumped up, in this case this will cut down unnecessary moderation time and the effort needed to dig in to check the last OP posts.
Hope my suggestion is useful.
I propose to create a sub-section (one-level deep) in the IM Journeys section and move those inactive/abandoned threads there and mark them as "Archived". Threads will be still left opened for comments and if the OP wanted to update their own thread, it still be able to move back to the IM Journeys section. In this way, the existing journey section will be active with current and updated and not littered with 'dead' comments.
If extra help is needed, I can volunteer to clear this up but the way I do it is to only consistently move these inactive threads that are identified as "abandoned for a period of time" as and when they are bumped to the first 2 pages. The older threads behind will be left untouched unless they are being bumped up, in this case this will cut down unnecessary moderation time and the effort needed to dig in to check the last OP posts.
Hope my suggestion is useful.
