This is just a general enquiry about the protocols of deleting a thread

Ok if you create a thread, get multiple replies, ask multipe questions, finally thank everyone for their help, leave it awhile and then delete it you loss some post count points. No problems:)

But someone pointed out here that if you deleted a thread, they thought all the people who had answered that thread would also loss post count points.:(

Now along with kedaman, Batman, and a few others not that concerned over this...but clearly some members are. Therefore if they also lose count points, (am not sure if this is correct by the way), what would be the polite thing to do. Not delete the thread and allow it to disappear into whatever fate awaits threads, or delete it to free up space on the board?????

Am confused as to best approach?????

[SteveCRM]

Im pretty sure you can lock your posts when your done.

[Stevie]

Why delete the thread at all?

If it is deleted once it has been solved, then no-one else will be able to benefit from it. Before I ask any questions I always do a search first, and if it has already been answered, then I have no need to ask. If it has been deleted then obviously it won't be found in the search.

As SteveCRM said you can lock a thread instead to stop people posting to it.

I'm pretty sure that John/James would start deleting old threads if more space was needed for the boards.

[honeybee]

Yes, I think I should poke my nose into this matter.

I feel a thread should not be deleted under normal circumstances. If a thread remains unanswered or if no reply is posted to a thread for x days, maybe that thread should be moved to a different location, like 'Old Unanswered Threads'. This way we shall have the threads, and not clutter up the usual boards. Sounds like having a cake and eating it, too, doesn't it?

I feel that any member will feel bad if one of his threads receives no answer at all, which happened to my post on a dial-up connection to an SQL Server. OK, you guys may be VB experts, and others maybe a little more than novices, but I think you should at least tell us that the post is foolish, if you think so. If you people can't answer a question like that, the member might feel that the entire forum failed to find a solution to his problem.

I entirely missed the point of 'points' for a post. Otherwise I would never have deleted some 4-odd posts that I deleted last week. I think this procedure of giving points should be explained to every new member through email on registration.

[Stevie]

There are no points as such. All there is, is a post count, which is just the amount of posts you have made.

Don't think if you have not had an answer for a question it means it was a stupid question. There are plenty of things out there people don't know, or more to the point people who do know the answer may not have been logged on that day.
I have had quite a few questions not answered, and I don't think of myself as foolish. But that may just be me. ;)

[noone]

I think your all forgetting that old posts are autmitaclly (I hate spelling) deleted after 30 days arent they?

[Stevie]

That can't be right otherwise your post count would never go up after your initial 30 days. If you posted say an average of 10 a day, then after 30 days you'd have 300 posts, then it would never go up, as 10 would be added and 10 would be removed.

[noone]

Sorry, you are 100% right. I must be out of it.

As far as I know, threads will be kept and not deleted. There are still threads back from 1999. I think, but I'm not certian, that the only reason they were deleted before was because we have switched from UBB to vBulletin.

Will use the lock option in future, had thought this was only for John and James.

honeybee

Great idea move unanswered threads to another forum after say a fortnight

Where's Kedaman's post, here? :p