Auto-Archive old, stale or uninteresting ideas

December 2, 2010

Posted By:  robgtx

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Status: Partially Implemented

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For ideas that are "old" or not popular with the community, automatically archive them after a specific period of time.

For example if it were know that ideas that receive no votes or comments in a 90-day time window that these ideas would be automatically archived, two things would happen.

First, the clutter automatically cleared out of the way so that one could focus on fresh ideas. Second, there would be a built in promotion component. Whomever was the original poster would be incented to continually recruit new participants in that specific idea or even recruit new community members.

Naturally if you did this, you would need put a timer on ideas that are getting within the 2-3 week range so that the author could get back out there and start promoting. And any given post or comment would reset the 90-day timer.

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  • May 25, 2011     Comment Link

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    Posted By: CyJ

    I upgraded this to Partially implemented since I've been working on it.  There is definately nothing automatic about the process.  Over an hour and I'm still working on ideas starting with the letter "A".  Phew!
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  • Dec 3, 2010     Comment Link

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    Posted By: jervis961

     I doubt that the site's software would be able to do much of anything automatically.  :)  
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  • Dec 3, 2010     Comment Link

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    Posted By:
    sugarbear

    I don`t believe that the original posters are gong to recruit any one to revisit a topic. Many of the voters were drive by`s or have left the site.
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  • Dec 3, 2010     Comment Link

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    Posted By: ideasearcher

    @robgtx Do you think this platform is capable of doing something like that?
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  • Dec 2, 2010     Comment Link

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    Posted By: bill_b

    We are actually talking this one through in the comments on this idea. Would love to hear you weigh in there. Thanks for posting.