Threads should not be erased.

If there is a particular thread that you feel is important, it would behoove you to keep it active. To my knowledge, active threads are never deleted unless the thread has content that would warrant deletion.

Yes I agree. I am keeping the threads I like very active, with the help of many many many many many others!!

Ah, now you have drifted into a subject near and dear enough to my heart that I will get involved. Threads that have not been used in a long time, but none the less contain usefull information that could be beneficial to future users as well as the "old same crowd".

I've been, for several months, talking to the Webmaster about finding some way to archive old threads that have not been used in a while in the hopes that we could make them available to people to use as a reference. There are many logistical problems involved in this, how do we format this information?...If we save it as Web Pages how do we incorperate it into a Forum that is operated using a Database?...things like this.

We were kind of hoping that the last promised upgrade of vBulletin would have been 3.0 instead of merely the 2.2.2 patch because the former contains some solutions to this quandary but alas...it was not to be.

If anybody has some valuble suggestions about what you would like to see in some archive insofar as ease of use or catagorization if information, I would welcome it!

I believe that storing old threads as a reference is a good idea...(the latin word for this is Vademecum, mmmmmm)...

I think that certain "mb" can be used for helpful hinces or clues for future and remote referencies...as a "legacy"...nicht war?

OOOOOOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

I am in awe of your idea ReadWryt!!
That is the best idea I have heard!!

Always handy to have an expert around. I find it very hard to translate practical ideas in working computer software.

Personally, and if possible, I'd say threads that covered subjects that involve better understanding of ME and such......

Now that was a very precise decrition, wasn't it? I mean threads with subjects like: Balrog wings?, What is an Orcs exactly?, Why Moria?. Things like that, where serious debate has been about and which encouraged people to quote, interpret and speculate about.

Gosh, am I making myself clear here? I'm a bit tired and reading back, I do not seem to be hitting the point.

I think that you hit your point well enough. I feel that a catologue may be very useful. If not tooo much trouble was required to put it up.

I support the idea of the catalogue, but Wouldn't it be great if the catalogue includes the names of the participants?

That would be cool!