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Moving threads to archive - how decided? - Dave_TD
Is there a set rule or timescale for moving threads to the archive? The most recent threads on there are 14 months old...
I only ask because, having been on here a couple of months now, I'm finding it very time-consuming to trawl through the discussion or technical forums browsing for anything of interest that may have been talked about in the past. Say if I'm looking at page 38, when I come back to the front it puts me in at page 1 again. Is there an easy way to jump more than 2 pages of thread headings at a time?
Moving threads to archive - how decided? - HF
K - the most recent threads on my archive are only 7 months old. I seem to remember reading ages ago that threads get moved once they become non-topical or once they have no posts added to them for a while(don't know how long). I may be wrong, or the rules might have changed since then anyway.
HF
Moving threads to archive - how decided? - Dave_TD
HF - That's changed since this morning then! They were only up to Oct 01 then, now they're up to Apr 02.
Maybe Mark's been so busy moving them he hasn't had time to comment on here...
But thankyou anyway Mark! ;o)
Moving threads to archive - how decided? - HF
HF - That's changed since this morning then! They were only
up to Oct 01 then, now they're up to Apr 02.
Maybe Mark's been so busy moving them he hasn't had time
to comment on here...
But thankyou anyway Mark! ;o)


K, strange that it all changed for you overnight! Or since this morning I should say. Although even with my mathematics skills, I wouldn't have put Oct 01 as 14 months ago ;)

Seriously, glad it's a little more updated for you now.

Have one point to make, which isn't actually directed at you K, but towards some others. Mark (RBLS) has a difficult enough job at times moderating this forum, as we well know. What I want to say is that Mark has other things to do also (I'd imagine), as in work/family/whatever commitments - and as such he cannot be constantly here, much as we might like him to be. When I very first came here i had this idea in my head of a moderator being constantly there, always watching, etc etc - but they are also human beings and they have lives as much as any of us do. Mark will respond when he can, to any query/problem etc. It's just that he cannot be on call 100% of the time, IMHO.

Well I will leave it at that I think. Hope all is well with you K, and speak to you soon.
HF
Moving threads to archive - how decided? - HF
A>>lthough even with my mathematics skills,
I wouldn't have put Oct 01 as 14 months ago ;)


Oh dear. Have seriously embarrassed and humiliated myself here. It's December, isn't it? I'm still living in September I'm afraid.

Sorry. Don't know where that came from. Red as a beetroot and jumping into nearest deep hole :(
HF
Moving threads to archive - how decided? - Dave_TD
LMAO!!! I'll hold your shovel...
Moving threads to archive - how decided? - HF
K you are very welcome to my shovel - just dig deep enough and I will jump in, honestly!

Still feel very embarrassed about that - but glad it's given you a bit of a LMAO K!!

Take care and see you soon, I hope
HF



Moving threads to archive - how decided? - Mark (RLBS)
>Is there an easy way to jump more than 2 pages of thread headings at a time?

No there isn\'t and its damned annoying.

What you can do is add the page you last read to your favourites. Then you can go back to it on a later viewing and continue from where you left off. Obviously if you are actually reading a thread the it takes you back to the correct place in the directory.

There is a set rule for moving threads to archive - they\'re not. Not ever.

The Backroom Archive is the previous backroom from the previous software. And even then I have moved quite a lot of interesting stuff from there to Technical Matters.