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Originally Posted by queetz@home
The South Fraser Perimeter Road thread is still open even though it is said to be closed. Plus the Metro Vancouver Transportation & Transit Plebiscite thread should be closed since that plebiscite has long been over for a while now. While we're at it, the Vancouver Downtown Streetcar | Proposed thread should be closed as well since it was the Election promise of the NPA who has since been defeated during the last municipal election.
Just browsing through the Transportation Forum and so many threads on topics here and there, some dated for over half a dozen years already still remain open and yet not closed. I guess they don't prune here, eh?  |
Pruneing actually deletes threads, posts, images, attachments, etc. It's also extremely heavy on the server to do so, which is why pruneing systems are often limited to "unmoderated forum games" type forums where you don't want spam to sit around.
What you want, is to avoid thread necro'ing. This is done by locking threads that people bump well past the end of the discussion and not adding anything to it. Some forums have a anti-bump feature that prevents threads being bumped up without moderator intervention, but the negative consequence to that is spammers can post to their automated hearts content without anyone noticing for a VERY long time.
At any rate, in terms of a should a new thread should be made. No, because most of these projects were announced at the same time, so they are really one multi-stage project rather than individual projects. Likewise, we tend to discuss things about all the renovation projects as a whole in the context of Translink or the Skytrain.
Now if Translink decides to add a completely new station, that would justify a thread by itself.
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