Re: Shouldn't Totally Useless Support Topics Be Deleted?

Quote from: Steve on March 17, 2015, 09:11:10 AM

I'm talking about ones like this one:



http://ift.tt/1xb3ELm



I realize they won't stay on the first page of the topics list very long...

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Re: Shouldn't Totally Useless Support Topics Be Deleted?

so they delete all your posts from now on??

* Ρουνικ runs away

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Re: Shouldn't Totally Useless Support Topics Be Deleted?

No no no ... I don't mean to go through what's already here ... it was just a suggestion for future posting.



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Re: Shouldn't Totally Useless Support Topics Be Deleted?

in short... and in general -- no. It's not worth the hassle of trying to figure out what's "worth keeping" and what is "useless"





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Re: Shouldn't Totally Useless Support Topics Be Deleted?

I agree that useless (not old) topics should be removed. However, with over 3.5 million posts in over 430,000 topics, this would be a full time job. I don't believe that anyone here is willing to take on the task to go through all posts and topics to d...



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Re: Shouldn't Totally Useless Support Topics Be Deleted?

Quote from: margarett on Today at 12:59:52 PM

Yeah, while you are correct in both cases, we really don't have a policy about removing user posts, except when they are totally spammy or trolling...

That's why I ...



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Re: Shouldn't Totally Useless Support Topics Be Deleted?

I agree with the OP. There are a lot of 'junk' threads that should be removed on a regular basis. For example, old paid requests that didn't get a reply.



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Re: Shouldn't Totally Useless Support Topics Be Deleted?

No, it's not, but it would be the principled thing to do, in order to be consistent after all .



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Re: Shouldn't Totally Useless Support Topics Be Deleted?

Last time I looked, Chit Chat wasn't in the Support Board section



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Re: Shouldn't Totally Useless Support Topics Be Deleted?

Also, we'd be hypocrites if we were to delete totally useless Support Topics without also deleting the entire Chit Chat board .



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Re: Shouldn't Totally Useless Support Topics Be Deleted?

Yeah, while you are correct in both cases, we really don't have a policy about removing user posts, except when they are totally spammy or trolling...



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