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What are everybody's thoughts on archiving?
Do you think it should be a thing or not? Explain your answer. I personally don't think it should be a thing because it indirectly encourages reposts. I also think a thread can always be relevant as long as people are bringing new information to the table.
I think site culture will decide.
As far as I'm aware of, activity sort by x days displays only threads max x days old. If most people don't change it to all time acrivity, threads will be soft-locked anyway. Even if you will be able to comment, almost noone will ever see it.
On the other hand, if most people change sorting to unlimited activity, even years old threads might start living again with just one interesting comment.
Even if it is a technical limitation on Reddit you could still make an argument for it to be a thing. For instance, to stop necroing old threads (if someone didn't want that to happen.)
Why the aversion to necroposting? Tildes has the facility to support it, and there is no reason to spew out a new thread for already treaded topics.
https://tildes.net/~tildes/4i1/necroposting
I personally have no problem with necroposting. I'm just saying other people might.
If we don't archive, finding the new comments in the topics could be a bit of a chore. There's discussion about how that might be made better here: https://tildes.net/~tildes/4qj
I don't really like the idea of archives because most threads have no reason to be closed. At the same time I didn't like how a thread could later on be "brigaded" when an event happens related to that thread or commenters. So if someone say, made a prediction that came true, that thread gets brigaded with people who flood the conversation with low quality "YOU WERE RIGHT!" comments or "WELL THAT WAS POORLY WORDED BECAUSE X HAPPENED" Not sure if that will be an issue or not here though since we generally aim for a higher level of conversation quality.
Edit: Just a thought, perhaps instead of archiving a thread entirely we can archive old comment chains to preserve the original discussions? I wouldn't mind that so much.
Generally I don't think it's necessary, but it's true that at some point a topic can have so many comments that navigating it becomes unwieldy... Hopefully the devs can figure out some good solutions to that.
Yeah. A way of sorting the comments or a good search function (maybe?) would be nice.