Closing Old Threads

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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!

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

3

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.

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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.

5

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.

6

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.

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Thanks for explaining that to me.