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Posted on Apr 20, 2015
Do you think RallyPoint should discontinue discussion threads after a certain amount of time?
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SFC Douglas Duckett
Leave them open. Sometimes new members will be browsing threads and find one that perks their interests and respond to it. Who knows? After so many months, or even years, that person may be able to shed some new light on that topic.
Leave them open. Sometimes new members will be browsing threads and find one that perks their interests and respond to it. Who knows? After so many months, or even years, that person may be able to shed some new light on that topic.
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I agree that there needs to be a time when discussion threads are "closed" to further comment. I am sure that I am not the only one who --- in their early days here on RP --- found themselves responding to a comment in a discussion thread that was a year or so old. I also think that the closed discussions should be archived and kept accessible to future RP generations.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
Concur. I think Close/Archive/Reference method tends to work best.
6~ months lets the dust settle on a particular thread, but the topics do appear again and again.
6~ months lets the dust settle on a particular thread, but the topics do appear again and again.
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Other: when everyone gets unanimously sick and tired of hearing CPT (Join to see)'s infamous 'should 2lt salute 1lt' post. And I have a feeling it's still making waves
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As a new RP member, I am guilty of whipping a dead horse here, but unless a post is closed I look to see if I have something of value (not just getting my two-cents in) to add to the issue at hand, not just the shelf life date. Maybe I'm a minority.
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SFC Douglas Duckett RP is building a body of knowledge with every post. Future members will be able to access a LOT of wisdom.
Keep it all.
Keep it all.
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Never, leave them up... however, I don't think Rallypoint has any business leaving shit-post threads up that are thinly-veiled excuses to promote bigotry.
See also: https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/did-obama-just-admit-he-was-a-muslim
See also: https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/did-obama-just-admit-he-was-a-muslim
Did Obama just admit he was a Muslim ? | RallyPoint
Yes, Obama Did Just Admit He Is A Muslim! Let's be honest here, for many of us, we have no problem at all believing that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim at heart, despite his claim to be a Christian. As far as I can tell from his 2004 interview, he doesn't have a clue about Christian doctrine. At the closing of the G20 Summit, Obama identified himself as part of the Muslim community, and it seems that the news reporters listening didn't even...
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SFC Douglas Duckett Rather than establishing a thread shelflife, I would close threads after, say 200 responses. Who has the motivation to go back to eternity on a thread?
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Sometimes its nice to go back and read older threads especially when you see hints of old discussions showing up in new threads. Its helps to educate yourself on what appears to be inside jokes that you missed.
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The very first thread I did on RP, I believe, was the one where I said that Bush and Cheney were grossly incompetent at best, in their conduct of OIF.
Poof. Nothing. Not one reply. I wondered what I had done wrong. A few months later it just exploded and got quite a bit of play.
So leaving the threads alone seems good to me.
Walt
Poof. Nothing. Not one reply. I wondered what I had done wrong. A few months later it just exploded and got quite a bit of play.
So leaving the threads alone seems good to me.
Walt
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