Am I losing my marbles or is my sight failing... 23 January 2018 at 12:21AM in Over 50s MoneySaving 41 replies 7.6K views

chesky

Pyxis wrote: »

What some long-running threads do is to create a Part2, Part3 etc thread after around 10,000 posts, and then link the old thread to the new one in the new one's first post.

Then the board guide is asked to close the old post, but it is still available to read.

How does this happen in practice? Who gets to decide?

Pollycat

chesky wrote: »

How does this happen in practice? Who gets to decide?

From what I've seen, it's usually one of the regular posters who starts a new thread.

However, if you believe MSE's reason for disappearing threads is people hitting the :spam: button by mistake :whistle:, the thread just disappears giving no chance to link the old thread.

Pyxis

chesky wrote: »

How does this happen in practice? Who gets to decide?

The ones I've been on, the regulars just decide amongst themselves.

And then post plenty of warning posts and links etc.

It's no big deal.

Pollycat

Buggins wrote: »

Can't someone start a new thread. It bothers me that some people who have previously been following it may actually be in need of it as newly bereaved and it's not available.

FTR, this ^^^^ poster has started a new thread here:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5783313

chesky

Interesting thread on the credit card board. Apparently several threads have disappeared within the last day or so and the OPs posts have dropped from 130 to 100 overnight and he seems rather cross about it.

Savvy_Sue

going back to Board Guides and Forum Team, the BGs do not have authority to delete threads or even posts, so please don't blame them!

jamesperrett

I don't think that it has been mentioned in this thread yet, but the credit card section, being the first on the list, has attracted quite a few spam threads recently and I believe that the forum team have been tweaking apects of the forum to reduce the spam. One of the things they tried was to reduce the number of clicks needed on the spam button before a thread is removed - that's why so many threads have been removed recently.

I know that I've inadvertently clicked on the spam button a few times when scrolling on a tablet but I had no idea how disastrous that could be.

Pyxis

jamesperrett wrote: »

I don't think that it has been mentioned in this thread yet, but the credit card section, being the first on the list, has attracted quite a few spam threads recently and I believe that the forum team have been tweaking apects of the forum to reduce the spam. One of the things they tried was to reduce the number of clicks needed on the spam button before a thread is removed - that's why so many threads have been removed recently.

I know that I've inadvertently clicked on the spam button a few times when scrolling on a tablet but I had no idea how disastrous that could be.

But you can correct an erroneous click on a spam button.

I'm always doing it, because I use an iPad, and the icons are small.

When you click on the spam button, a notice pops up telling you have.
Go back to the spam button, and you'll see it now says "not spam". Click on that, and you'll get another notice saying thank you for telling us it's not spam, or words to that effect.


Edit... talking of which, the spam button appears to have disappeared!

There's a thread about it On the MSE labs sub-board....

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=73807995#post73807995



And here.... on the MSE Feedback sub-board..

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5786292

SevenOfNine

This sounds mean to say it, but at the end of the day this forum is called "Over 50's Money Saving", so I suppose after a certain length of time or size for a thread to run, which most likely had few regular 'updates' on any money saving ideas contained within it, perhaps it's right that it's closed.

Isn't there a facility to actually 'close' a thread without removing it from view though, so no new posts can be added, but perhaps then a new thread can start as a follow on? Anyone who still wants to read what's in the old one can do so, but it will naturally sink.

There is a difference between a forum & a blog, there certainly were interesting & very supportive posts contained in it, & it certainly didn't bother me how long it got or how long it stayed (no-one is obliged to read anything), but to be frank, it did have large blog & chat room type elements, with the original OP saying she was dropping out some while ago. Time for a new thread.......which someone has started.

Pollycat

SevenOfNine wrote: »

This sounds mean to say it, but at the end of the day this forum is called "Over 50's Money Saving", so I suppose after a certain length of time or size for a thread to run, which most likely had few regular 'updates' on any money saving ideas contained within it, perhaps it's right that it's closed.

I think this board was (and is) the most appropriate place for that kind of thread.
And I don't see why any such thread should necessarily contain money-saving ideas.
It was clearly a support thread so I can't see why it was right to be closed.

And the point is, it wasn't closed because it had run its course.
It was closed because the :spam: button had been clicked enough times - whether by accident or on purpose maliciously - to auto remove it without the option to reinstate it.

SevenOfNine wrote: »

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Isn't there a facility to actually 'close' a thread without removing it from view though, so no new posts can be added, but perhaps then a new thread can start as a follow on? Anyone who still wants to read what's in the old one can do so, but it will naturally sink.

Yes, there is a facility to close a thread without it being removed from view.
There are many threads that are treated like this.
But, as pointed out above, this didn't happen.

SevenOfNine wrote: »

There is a difference between a forum & a blog, there certainly were interesting & very supportive posts contained in it, & it certainly didn't bother me how long it got or how long it stayed (no-one is obliged to read anything), but to be frank, it did have large blog & chat room type elements, with the original OP saying she was dropping out some while ago. Time for a new thread.......which someone has started.

I can't see the new thread being any different to the old one with some interesting & very supportive posts in it, as well as large blog & chat room type elements.
And I don't see anything wrong with that at all.