Currently, archived topics are not accessible. However, the topics have been closed and remain visible under the categories. We are in the process of reviewing the contents to determine which should be kept and which should be archived. Please let us know about topics you feel would be important to retain in the active topics list. Thanks!
Whoaa, and new interface for the software it seems…
Wordy/Fizzy ,
Since topics keep reoccurring every 2-4 months, you might wanna rethink the 1 month auto-close feature ( perhaps 6mo ). If archived topics are not visible, does that mean not only that wealth of information but the very history of Replay Poker is being reset basically ??? I know the winners always write then re-write history in real life, but did recent events on the forum cause the forum itself to be reset ? I had fun reading the evolution of the replay forum, and by its very nature the history of Replay Poker. All of that now goes buh-bye ?? I read the new forum rules, and now this…
We are definitely looking at the best way to continue to provide our players and visitors with an abundance of helpful information. We’re proud of our forum history, and it will most assuredly remain intact.
I was clearing the unread locked threads one by one until I saw in the drop down box the word “Dismiss “.
Poof, they were mass cleared. Time saved ? Priceless
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I noticed at the bottom of some threads it says that the topic will be closed one month after the last post and other threads do not.
Who or what decides what is a good topic to keep or lock when the topic is brand new and only has one post ?
This is an automatic setting that kicks in when there have been no posts on a topic for a month. As long as the topic is generating interest and posts, the topic will not be automatically closed.
sorry to say, but this seems like a really bad update.
first of all, if there won’t be posted in a forum anymore they stay down in the list anyway, and the longer they stay dormant the deeper they go, so in fact the update won’t change anything about that. the only reason they can pop up back into the list again is if someone posts in it again, which means that there is new interest shown into it.
second thing is exactly like sarah said that some threads gets renewed interest after several months, and it isn’t even that uncommon since i have seen it happen several times, meaning that people stil have interest in dormant forums and making it unreachable to post into it again. i have even seen topics get a new life after years of no posting into it.
third thing is that if someone is seriously interested in the dormant topic, they can easily make a new topic, which will only make several things of the same subject get spread over several different forums.
long story short, it won’t help at all in what you want to accomplish, but it does have several negative results. so i hope you want to reconsider this and only close forums for the reasons you had before the update.
and most importantly, since dormant topics are deep down into the list anyway it won’t make any difference at all if you want to make the lists more clear to clean them up, since it already happens in the process.
We agree and this is why we are going through the dormant posts to determine which should be closed permanently. There are many great topics that people would read, but they may be further down the list than some are willing to dig. Some are completely outdated, and there are many topics that are related and can be combined.
There are thousands and thousands of topics and it will take some time to go through them individually, but you will see topics re-opened as we go through the process. In the meantime, if you have a topic that you believe should remain active, please let us know.
sounds good, hopefully the all the good/funny/important etc. ones stay open.
i hope u aren’t done yet since there are still several forums closed which fall into these 3 category examples i mentioned.
good luck with choosing which ones to open, and thx 4 the reply.
@wordy1
i see u merged this post into this thread. but i posted this in the other thread, because galak asked why several topics are closed (watch the quote above). and the link i put into the post is already leading to this thread.
so i think it’s better to remove the merge since he can’t see my explanation this way
Ok I’ll just click on both until it all gets merged back into the original thread and these last 4 posts get deleted. Sounds like the only thing to do so no one gets confused.