If A Topic Is Moved, We Leave A Link To It

[jetje]

What if... What if. Maybe people need to start thinkin'"Hey it's not here, where is it" and start lookin' in another forum.

[The Great Dude]

There is always a "what if", but Rocko's suggestion seems good, but what happens if a newbie doesn't know what's a PM?

[CornerPocket]

Originally posted by jetje@15 February 2003 - 13:32
What if... What if. Maybe people need to start thinkin'"Hey it's not here, where is it" and start lookin' in another forum. 

but not all will.... if they did we'd have the cleanest board on the net

I've placed a suggestion in the Mod's forum, if applicable, maybe it will be done, just have to wait and see what VB says.

Suggestion posted:

"If possible, move the topic with a link to the new location and have the board automatically removed the link after let's say 5 days or so. That would give the original poster plenty of time 'I hope' to acknowledge any replies and hopefully notice the new location of the moved topic. At the same time the board is kept clean. This is just a brainstorming idea I planted for the Mod's - Admin's to ponder on..............

feedback??

[smellycat]

Totally agree with you CornerPocket.

But 5 days is too long. Most threads have disappeared in 5 days, so it's pointless deleting the link.

Perhaps a few hours is all you need.

[KinkoStinky]

Naw, I say 5 days... What if you post a topic and then you fall asleep in the toilet... Then within a few hours, your topic will be moved and you wont know about it... Plus within a few MORE hours, you would be dead, so who would care?

[Nobody1234]

A few hours is too short and 5 days is too long. How about 36 hours so that if some user looks back every day around the same time he/she will see it was moved.

[ooo]

u should remove link since it takes up space... dont know how much space you have but still.... leave it for a week i guess?

[BROCKSTER]

yer no need for the link they can just search theres user name if its really hard to find

[smellycat]

I've just looked at the last three pages of each forum/section.

Apart from "About our Website..." and "Filesharing" the total number of threads moved in the three pages was 0 - 4.

In "About our Website..." the total number of threads moved was 17.
This covered a period of approx 9 days.
Thats about 2 moved per day.
Each page is about 3 days.

In "Filesharing". the total number of threads moved was 22.
This covered a period of approx 3 days.
Thats about 7 moved per day.
Each page is about 1 day.

Time to delete a link to a moved thread could be section-dependent.
Or position-dependent.
How about if a link to moved thread reaches page 2 then it gets deleted.

yer no need for the link they can just search theres user name if its really hard to find

Unless your name is F.C.

[dirtyoldman]

i think leaving a link for 48 hr. is enough.if they havn't figured it's moved by then they probebly forgot were it was anyway.i forget where i've posted 2 hrs later
probebly old age still haven't gotten gray stars yet?