[wp-forums] Closing down threads regarding old versions of WP

[James Huff]

Sorry, my bad, last minute change of opinion in the group. Let’s go with 6 months, not 3, to better match the major release cycles.

Pros: More users opening their own threads. Less belief that an issue in 3.7 is relevant to 3.9 (for example). Less "me too!" on ancient threads.

Cons: People will no longer be able to reply to their ancient threads that they forgot about for 6 months, which isn’t actually a negative point, because we have a much better chance of seeing a new no-reply thread than a 6-month-old thread with a reply.

Otto, what do you think, and if agreed, would you please make this happen for us? :)

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On July 3, 2014 at 9:32:16 AM, James Huff (james at a8c.com) wrote:

We had a chat about this today in the meetup on IRC and are thinking that auto-close after 3 months is the sweet spot, especially considering the rapid release schedule.

Pros: More users opening their own threads. Less belief that an issue in 3.7 is relevant to 3.9 (for example). Less "me too!" on ancient threads.

Cons: People will no longer be able to reply to their ancient threads that they forgot about for 3 months, which isn’t actually a negative point, because we have a much better chance of seeing a new no-reply thread than a 3-month-old thread with a reply.

Otto, what do you think, and if agreed, would you please make this happen for us? :)

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On July 3, 2014 at 8:36:53 AM, Josh Lobe (joshlobe at joshlobe.com) wrote:

Even six months seems to be a long time when we are working something as
dynamic as WordPress.

In my experience.. if the next reply is more than a month or two older
than the previous reply (on any thread).. then the items are typically
unrelated.
Perhaps this would encourage (force) newer users to being a new thread..
instead of responding to something 'dead'.
And.. when a new user does respond to a 'dead' thread... they are
usually informed by a mod to begin a new thread.

Seems we have come full circle...

Just my $0.02 :)

On 7/3/2014 11:28 AM, andrew nevins wrote:
> I don't really know the reason why 12 month old topics are automatically
> closed, I assume it's because the topic is unlikely to be actively
> contributed to and relevant to current WordPress versions.
>
> But can the same reason have this automation reduce the time down to topics
> 6 months old?
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