Published on 12, July, 2020
Just to be clear if I read the latest moderators note corectly they are saying all threads older than 3 years are going to be deleated. Not locked. Deleated.
I don't belive anyone asked for that inspite of what the note says about listening to feedback. I can only assume it has nothing to do with feedback and more to do with reducing load on the servers.
I think a lot of people probably missed this detail in the note so it was worth mentioning.
I assume this is going to be a one off exercise, to reduce the data that needs to be transferred to the new forum?
I certainly hope it is not the intention to automatically delete threads that reach three years old on an ongoing basis.
I wondered this too. I also think the OP should have the option to be able to delete what they have started. I have some old threads which, although they have "documented" the transition between wondering, knowing and general wittering on, I would rather they didn't exist! Once you have a reply you cannot delete it.
My friend had a good saying
"say it, forget it, write it regret it" !
If you e-mail the Community Manager, you can request the deletion of old posts. All you need to do is provide them with the URL of each post.
This is something I did earlier this year, as I had a whole batch that I wanted removing.
Thanks for re-educating me on that.
Not old ones you can't! And posts.
True.....but you can edit the words in your OP.....but I think the title remains.