TechRepublic needs to clean up

Point value changed by question poster.

I haven't noticed the difference before, thanks for pointing it out!

The question I now have, looking at those links, is why aren't they auto-closing after three months? The sampling I looked at had more than one response, which seems to be the theshold to trigger an auto-close.

A good example as any of how not to "operate" an application system (web based in this case - but application system IS (or should be) application system. ONLY.

Just one question. Why the odd number of points?

End of mail.

Old questions need to be cleaned out as well. If we're up to thread # 108223 +, there's little chance that # 39000 or even # 79000 will be responded to any time soon (:')

I have noticed the User Deleted differences before this and wondered about them but since I am no Web site guru, I have no suggestions to make other than to please try to fix this. If you look at the top scorers in Q&A, there are a combination of about 2000 questions not rated as of today. I myself have 80 questions not rated and they have pretty much been that way for months on end. How about the other high point question(s) that were supposedly closed yet remain listed as open? These too,need to be removed from the lists.

If possible, remove all inactive questions from open status to an archived location for
search(es) by techs looking for answers that have already been asked. Rev up the search engine used so that looking in just Q&A for say, the question about the DOS script to delete all temp files on a PC at boot can be found by using the "deltree" variable--I tried this yesterday and was unable to find the recent question that had a few answers (anybody seen it?) and a remark about the reboot when updating systems. I could not search just the Q&A by date and keyword.

Just my feelings on the situation...

Thanks for letting us vent again, Maxwell, this has proven effective in the past to keep this wonderful site as good as it is!

Lizzy

:-)

The User Deleted came about when the site went thru maintenance and those individuals had changed from their previous screen name

The site at one time was performing an suto close that were still open after a certain amount of time expired,this feature seems to have went away whaen the site was updated.

On the other hand it seems as though the site is not a prority to update on a daily or monthly basis since it is a free site,I gather that when tech republic members give input to some ofthe changes that were made we lost some of the old features as a trade in too what members wanted to see on the site.

Then,it could be that whom ever is responsible will only perform maintenance as they see fit

Hi Maxwell,

I am afraid to even look up the large number of unrated responses that I have.

One thing that I have noticed is that if you answer a question that has not had activity for over 3 months, it it auto-closed after a week or so.

So,perhaps we should go through and add new answers to some of these old questions.

Chas

It sure looks like that when a question is posted by our old friend "User Deleted", that those questions do not follow the 3-month inactivity auto-close. I think it was questions 79714 & 89363 that had over 6 months between answers being posted to them! But, other question are auto-closing.
It sure looks like that the User Deleted problem somehow circumvents the 3-month inactivity closeout.
You're right, Maxwell, someone at TR should take a look at this.

Joe

All of my comments and responses from yesterday seem to now have ?User Deleted? also. I am not sure if everyone else experienced this relationship however this seemed to occur after I made updates to my user profile. The comments are still associated with my user record as they are still present in my Tech Rep. home page. From now on I am going to leave my email address in the note.

jkowalski@e-vti.com

A great topic to bring up and glad to see you take the bull by the horns. Hope that the powers to be behind the scenes will be motivated to act.

I would also like to see ?open? questions closed in 60 days, regardless of who is the submitter.

Rich

I may have a partial solution to out mystery poster .

When I changed my e-mail address of record for TR, all my outstanding answers changed from my handle to User Deleted. It took almost six months for my stats to begin to update after the new e-mail addy, and to this day they are still not correct, but I've quit caring about them.

IFR, there was once an admin posting saying that if someone fell into this category, the system would correctly credit the points, but I have found that not to be correct.

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