How Long Should Threads Last?

[piggynose]

A day, a week?
The reason i ask, is i posted something on tuesday, it got 6 replies, and now its gone. So can i assume there has to be a minimum of interest, eg 20 or so replies for it to be around for several days?

[Mamyalynne]

If someone is interested in the topic and posts on it then it will show up in 'Latest Posts' for a month from the date of the original posting.

[albaqwerty]

As Mamya said plus if it's vanished completely, it will have contravened Site Rules.

[johnny.5]

what happens to it after a month ?

[fiction-factory]

There are no questions showing on your profile as being asked by you on Tuesday (the nearest was Wednesday and that got 13 replies) so I assume it was removed for some reason. Threads last forever unless they get pulled

[Mamyalynne]

After a month, your answer will be posted and whoever is subscribed to the thread may get an alert - or anyone bumping into it by searching the subject matter etc will find it.

[Buenchico]

Threads remain on the site forever but they only appear in 'Latest posts' for a month. (They also only appear under the 'Most Recent' tab in any particular section of AB for a month but you can still access older threads by clicking on 'Answered' or by using the search box).

The only exceptions are where the member posting the question has been banned (which results in all of their contributions to the site disappearing) or where the Ed or a moderator has removed a thread for a breach of AB's rules (or possibly, even though the original post didn't break any rules, where there are lots of answers that create problems, e.g. where people repeatedly ignore the sub judice rules by discussing active court cases).

[Mamyalynne]

So Piggy has had a thread removed?

I misunderstood the query.

We shouldn't discuss removed threads

Sorry.

[shoota]

I have a jacket I wore as a track suit when I was 15 in 1970. Although a little faded now it is still wearable.

[Spicerack]

It was considered misinformation by AB's Covid expert.

[JimF]

"How Long Should Threads Last?"

Till about ten past...

[Buenchico]

I might be in error but I seem to recall it was you who posted a Youtube video asking if there was possibly any truth in it.

If so, since you'd not actually promoted the (completely discredited) theories in it as being true yourself, I initially decided to leave the video online for people to make their own minds up (hopefully in conjunction with reading the links that people posted illustrating the total lack of esteem that the scientific community holds for the so-called 'expert' behind the video).

Later on though, I decided that it was inappropriate to leave an embedded link online to one of the many copies of that video that Youtube's own moderators had been deleting for many hours on end.

However, when I came to remove your thread myself, I found that another moderator had beaten me to it.

That was most definitely NOT an act of prejudice on my part (or, I'm sure, on the part of the moderator who actually removed your thread). It was simply because all mods have received an email from the Ed, asking us to ensure that this policy is actively enforced:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1700018.html

[piggynose]

Interesting so its been removed. I posted a youtube video about a contraversial american scientist who spoke about covid-19 and said some contraversial things. In the comments it said this will get removed by youtube. Talk about 1984.

[woofgang]

I think there is a difference between controversial and dangerously untrue.

[Spicerack]

Dangerous. Seen it, woof?
I know Chris didn't watch it. ABC told him it was discredited, lol.
We'll be ready for when China take over the world.

[piggynose]

So how many people actually took the time to watch the videos?
Dangerous?
I also didnt know that chris was one of the moderators. Are there many other abers who are also mods?

[Mamyalynne]

I'm not sure it counts as dangerous, two different moderators one of whom (Chris) is reluctant to remove much except spam decided it needed to go.

Seems fair to me knowing how the Editorial Team want the Site run.

If I disapproved, I'd be off.

[Mamyalynne]

Lots of them Piggy.

[Spicerack]

This will disappear soon, piggy. Be careful. ;-)

[shoota]

Not that sort of threads then...?

[johnny.5]

yeah like it would still fit shoota