Do you delete old threads

Do you delete old and dormant threads or leave them open?

IMO any thread must be good as it adds content as well as makes the forum appear busy.

What do you think?

 

No. There is no point to do so. What do you save a little storage space? Diskspace is pennies per gigabyte these days.

 

Nope, I'd never delete any meaningful content either. Some forums I have blocked off like "testing" sections from bots and they get pruned regularlary but that doesn't cause a loss of content.

 

Absolutely not. I don't delete old users, either, as I find that annoying as all hell.
Why would you delete anything unless it specifically called for it?

 

I keep all of my forums. Any thread that has objectionable material or needs to be deleted then I move to an archive.

 

We never delete old threads, those threads could be indexed by the search engines and driving traffic just because of the title. Deleting them would be foolish.

 

Nope, there's no point in ever deleting old topics. They're good for search engines, people still view them somewhat regularly, and they could be the reason a new member or ten actually joins a forum.

 

what they said...

 

We remove old threads from two specific forums to a Hibernation forum in Staff. Every once in a while I go through and get rid of threads in there that are older than three years old. There is really no reason to keep those around. And yeah, we prune old, inactive users, too. I try to keep the total users around the 80K mark.

 

I don't delete anything. Just the spam advertisments.

Everything else is moved out of view, I did prune my members once but only ones with 0 posts and had not been online in 8 months.

 

Generally, no. BUT if the thread has no value any more, I will move it to my Archive that I have set up in the Admin private forum.

 

No, I see no point in deleting perfectly good content. In fact if I stumbled across an old thread on a forum I'd think "Wow, this place has been around for a long time! There must be all sorts of knowledge here!"

 

No, most of my old threads are good info, that if someone queries that same topic again, can be bought up again. Not getting rid of good stuff like that!

 

No, I do not delete threads. And for my type of site, I see no reason to do so.

But, on a gaming support forum that I am a member of, they prune threads once they reach a certain age and I think that is about 2 years old. That forum has hundreds of categories, and has a little over 1 million post. As updates are released to the game that fixes certain issues, there are no need in having threads on the issues that are no longer around. So I imagine that is why the threads are removed.

 

Should never delete anything, if, for some reason you want to remove threads from the public simply create a hidden forum named trash can or something alike, and just store the unwanted/spam/bad threads there... ;-)

 

Only thing remove are spam threads. Everything else I keep. I see little reason to delete them, you never know what traffic an old thread can bring in. Could be your next big user.

 

I don't delete anything - even threads that should be removed. They are simply moved to a hidden forum.

There is no need to lock or delete old or out-dated threads; it just takes away valuable content from your forum.

Thread moved to Community Organization.

 

I Dont Delete Threads, Just Move To Trash Forum.

 

No I Just Move Them To
A Hidden Trash Can That
Normal Members Can Not
See. This Way If They
Are Somehow Needed At
A Later Date We Can Get
Them Back Easily.

 

No. Not sure what a good argument to do so would be, either.