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the graveyard

hey question, i have used this forum for quite some time now and really do enjoy it. there is one pet peev that i believe if you fixed would be for the better. i am assuming you have moderators correct? well i have noticed how may posts their are of people asking the same thing. and it gets annoying when you go into a forum and 2 out of the five post you look at are about topics that have already been recently covered. well i use another forum site which uses the same layout as your forum except they have a graveyard forum, there website is http://mansonusa.com/council/. so insted of just locking repetitive threads, they lock them and completely remove them from the forum into the gravyard forum. it is a really good idea because it removes alot of clutter from the site. i would highly suggest it.
[807 byte] By [dextercrabtree] at [2007-11-10 14:45:39]
# 1 Re: the graveyard
The toolshed forums have a similar thing. The 'Bin' forums is basically where a thread goes if it's utter crap, or has been posted before or whatnot. You can still post in there, but it doesn't count towards your post count.

I like the idea.
Adam at 2007-11-15 18:24:49 >
# 2 Re: the graveyard
just had a look at the link you provided, at it seems that The Graveyard is for "Threads deemed irrelevant, inappropriate, or otherwise unacceptable." well for the last two cases we do remove things. for the 'irrelevant', that's quite subjective ;)

it is a constant battle to try and get people to help themselves with search etc, but human nature makes it very hard to enforce, and with the number of members that we have, let alone the ones that do not register, all we can do to make the forums less 'cluttered' is to gently persuade people to check out the faqs, tutorials, and search. amongst this clutter there are some real gems, but i understand your frustration.

as to the forum like adam's 'Bin', that has been discussed - we shall see ;)

thanks for the feedback dexx :)
yinyang at 2007-11-15 18:25:44 >
# 3 Re: the graveyard
I'll just add this, you could call it the 'Sin Bin'...?
Emultion_Rawks at 2007-11-15 18:26:42 >
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