Dredging up the dead

[Uncle Stretch]

These two and three year old post are being brought back to life in the For Sale Section. It gets everybody interested in something that is long gone. Then you look at who revived them and its a new person that joined yesterday. I guess they sat up all night looking at all the old ads and deciding which one to bring back to life.
If yall notice there is a PM BUTTON that will appear if you are signed in and click on the members name. Just push it and ask if he still has the whatever and is it still for sale. Chances are its long gone....but maybe you will get lucky and he still has it and still wants it out of his collection. :wink:

 

[Rat Rod]

Ha Ha...yes, this is an annoying practice.

People need to pay attention to the post date to make sure the items have been listed recently.

 

[hubgearfreak]

as peatbog says.

on UK - CTC, whether it's sold or not - in a month, it's deleted

http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewforum.php?f=32&start=200

 

[Rat Rod]

Yeah...I can actually prune the FOR SALE section.

 

[Rat Rod]

There...just pruned down the FOR SALE section so that all that is there now is stuff from the last 90 days. :wink:

 

[outskirtscustoms]

Also if we'd all do our part to edit our post as things sell it'd help out. I normally try to do that till everything sells then put SOLD in the title. I hate when you find a good deal on that one piece you need and it's already sold.

 

[Uncle Stretch]

Man just 90 days and there are still 25 pages...Thats a bunch of ads.
I didn't know that you could do that. Cool trick. :lol:
What do they give you on CL like 45 days and its gone?

 

[Rat Rod]

Actually, I never have used the pruning tool because I always thought, the more posts the better for search engine purposes.

Seems like a good thing to do for the classified section stuff though.

 

[Uncle Stretch]

I had always thought so too. Seems like the more accessible info the better. Lots of pictures and prices to go by. The problem has been people wanting to drag up 3 year old ads and get everybody looking at them again and not realizing they are that old.

 

[user 135]

The only problem with pruning is that you lose post with pictures that might help for ID or pricing purposes. Could you just lock the threads after 90 days of no activity?

 

[Rat Rod]

Not sure if it gets that sophisticated....will check.

 

[Philphine]

don't know if it'll help or if this forum software can do it, but one forum i'm on has some kind of deal where if a thread is so many days old, an "are you sure box?" comes up that says something like this thread is so and so days old, do you still want to post. it does it when you hit the submit button so you have to read it and then hit submit again if you really want t do it. so at least you notice that's it's an old thread before you bump it. i admit i've done it myself a few times if i wasn't paying attention to dates.