Closing Old Threads

[Brandon Martus]

In order to prevent the confusion that usually happens with new rules, game play, robots, and forum members, we have archived old, inactive posts from last year. I went through and read all 25,000 threads and closed any that didn't have any replies since April 1, 2004. OK, I lie; I wrote a script to do it automagically.

The threads had to reside in one of these forums: Thanks and/or Congrats, Rules/Strategy, 3D Animation and Competition, Regional Competitions, Chairman's Award, Championship Event, Technical Discussion, Scouting, Programming, Motors, Electrical, Pneumatics, Kit & Additional Hardware, Computer Graphics, CAD/Inventor, Robot Showcase, Website Design/Showcase, Educational Robotics, IT / Communications, Control System, and FIRST Lego League

In total, 7500 threads were closed. Some threads that were closed may have been general, and not season-specific, so if you need a thread opened to continue the discussion, please contact a moderator. If it is not a candidate to be re-opened, you can always refer to the post in a new thread, and nobody will yell at you too much for duplicating a thread.

Friendly reminder #1: Search before you post!
Friendly reminder #2: "Does this post contribute to the discussion?"
Friendly reminder #3: Clear and straightforward thread titles good! Vague thread titles bad!

[Noodeler]

this is all common sence, and i think that i have a lock on posting threads. but oh well life is a beeech. hehe

[Mark McLeod]

I seem to be unable to delete old attachments since last year's thread's were closed. As expected, I get the check boxes by open thread attachments and no box by closed threads. However, I no longer can find the option to delete the attachments in open threads.

[Brandon Martus]

I'm not positive on how that works, but it probably locks the thread totally not letting you remove anything. If you've got attachments you need removed, PM me or contact a moderator of that forum (or use the 'Report Post to Moderator' link) and they can take care of it. Contacting a moderator is probably the faster route.

[DrShadowSML]

My personal thought about this subject is that closing threads is against the 1st amendment. Leave threads open so people can still talk about the subject.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by DrShadowSML

My personal thought about this subject is that closing threads is against the 1st amendment. Leave threads open so people can still talk about the subject.

The main reason we close the old threads is so that rules and discussion from pre-2005 seasons don't pop up and confuse everybody. Read the site rules, too, about moderators and their ability to close/edit/move any post you make.

[DrShadowSML]

Thanks for explaining that to me.