Pruning old posts.

[Jerlene]

Do you prune your older posts? I personally don't prune them, but if I do feel like doing a little cleaning up, I'll move them to a "Trash" section. I don't like deleting posts because that means dropping my statistics. lol

 

[Page]

nope, I just leave them.

 

[Jon]

I've made public archives mainly for "crawling" purposes. I also have a staff-only archive and a "recycling bin".

 

[Jerlene]

@danthex You and I run forums very similarly. I had the same setup going for all of my past forums.

 

[Azareal]

I don't really bother deleting posts, unless it's garbage, but that doesn't mean that I don't delete retired sites.

 

[Alexandoy]

Do you prune your older posts? I personally don't prune them, but if I do feel like doing a little cleaning up, I'll move them to a "Trash" section. I don't like deleting posts because that means dropping my statistics. lol

You are right with the policy of not deleting any post because that will affect your statistics. What I did with our office forum was to move the "trashy posts" to an invisible board that is visible only to the admin and staff. But you have to be discerning with the archiving of posts because it can offend the member who made that post if he notices that his post was missing.