@Beers2Freedom
You guys deleted the gas station shitter thread?
Yes, but not because of its content, rather, because of who the OP was
There is another thread on that topic now by Ghosted Tabloid
There was no way to keep the thread?
Banning doesn't delete the OP's threads, but, he had several on General, and I wanted to clean up his most visible posts (which was 3-5 threads if I recall correctly)
In hindsight I should have probably just moved them to the Archives
I don't remember who posted it.
Toplek, the person whom was banned
He's had many many alt accounts since arriving several months ago
What other threads are you guys deleting? Is this going to be a regular thing?
It's pretty rare that we delete threads, aside from obvious spam which is still rather infrequent
Besides the banned member's recent threads, and the 'white jihad' threads from a week or two prior, I don't remember the last time we deleted any threads. Point being, it's not often.
Do we need to start archiving important threads?
Up to you
I assume that anything important I want to keep should be saved offline, because like you, there have been many times I've searched for threads only to find them no longer available (but not by mod deletion, more on that in a moment)
An alternative when applicable is to bookmark the URLs shared in threads of interest
I've used the search function to look up past info and realized there is a lot missing.
Almost all deleted threads were deleted by the thread OP
This usually occurs via the OP purging their entire account of content
Some members semi-frequently do that, and some do it when they are leaving the forum (but possibly return eventually) and/or starting fresh with a new account
There should be a running list of deleted threads.
While I do understand the sentiment, the reason we wouldn't do that is because it would partially defeat the purpose of someone deleting their own thread
How long do threads stay in the archives? What's the duration before they expire?
They never expire, and they will stay in the archives as long as FCW is live.
The only reason they ever disappear from Archives is the above reason