Posted: 1/19/2016 11:26:51 PM EDT
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Is there a reason my backyard homestead thread is gone?
I hadn't updated it in a little while but I'd hate to think it has disappeared |
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I wonder if there is a way to unarchive it? http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_.html&r=11618103 I noticed Dimmu's archived too. Can we get garden/homestead threads that show progress through the seasons set to never archive? I think some people's snow season is long enough to archive a thread. |
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Whatever the outcome, don't let that hold you back from continuing to post. I've personally added some food sources to our property based on your posts alone. honestly given the time and effort spent writing the posts and the fact I did as much for me as anything , so I could look back at what I did and thought worked etc; if I started over Id do it somewhere it wouldn't disappear just because I didn't post for a couple months Though I appreciate greatly peoples advice and such, a permanent posting would be of more benefit to me. Thanks to everyone for all the help along the way |
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honestly given the time and effort spent writing the posts and the fact I did as much for me as anything , so I could look back at what I did and thought worked etc; if I started over Id do it somewhere it wouldn't disappear just because I didn't post for a couple months Though I appreciate greatly peoples advice and such, a permanent posting would be of more benefit to me. Thanks to everyone for all the help along the way Quoted:
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Whatever the outcome, don't let that hold you back from continuing to post. I've personally added some food sources to our property based on your posts alone. honestly given the time and effort spent writing the posts and the fact I did as much for me as anything , so I could look back at what I did and thought worked etc; if I started over Id do it somewhere it wouldn't disappear just because I didn't post for a couple months Though I appreciate greatly peoples advice and such, a permanent posting would be of more benefit to me. Thanks to everyone for all the help along the way It was a great thread. Maybe Goatboy could resurrect it? |
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Only by Goatboy. You are free to send him an email and ask. (I don't think he reads IM's). Quoted:
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It can be "un archived". Only by Goatboy. You are free to send him an email and ask. (I don't think he reads IM's). Goatboy!  Goatboy! Goatboy!
Maybe after he sobers up from SHOT? 
ETA; Maybe he can give you highly paid Mod's  on the slower moving forums some leeway to handle this, it would save him some time and energy?
ETA 2; Damn, I just noticed that Feral's threads on pigs has been locked down due to time also.  We need to pin some of these things!
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Just do another thread "part two" and link the original in your OP?
Link: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_My_backyard_suburban_farm.html Cold: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_My_backyard_suburban_farm.html Looks like the last post was almost a year ago 
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Just do another thread "part two" and link the original in your OP? Link: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_My_backyard_suburban_farm.html Cold: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_My_backyard_suburban_farm.html Looks like the last post was almost a year ago Do this ^ ^ ^ That's what I did with my garlic thread when it was archived before so people can always go back to the original thread. 
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Is there a reason my backyard homestead thread is gone? I hadn't updated it in a little while but I'd hate to think it has disappeared I went looking for that a few days ago when somebody else asked about it. I thought it had more recent posts but when I found it (Feral found it for me actually) the last post was Feb 5, 2015, so not just a couple of months...it was almost a year. It fell naturally into the archives from lack of traffic. It was a good thread. 
ETA: And no, none of us mods has the ability to pull a thread back from the archives. We can mark one to Not archive if it has merit and is popular or timely. But that happens before it goes into archives. The suggestions for "Backyard II" with links to the archives are a great idea. Some of us were discussing over the last few days that very long threads (like the beekeeping thread) can get cumbersome and less useful, and few people will go back to the beginning to read through them. I'm trying to decide how to handle that with the beekeeping thread. |
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I wonder if there is a way to unarchive it? http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_.html&r=11618103 I noticed Dimmu's archived too. Can we get garden/homestead threads that show progress through the seasons set to never archive? I think some people's snow season is long enough to archive a thread. I think most of the mods try to be sensitive to what's important for members, but for me,the call of when to mark a thread to not archive is not so easy to make. If a thread is getting zero traffic for many months, it's very difficult to know whether it's still relevant to the members. So in a thread you want to keep going, my suggestion would be to come in and post something somewhat regularly, to bump it, and that will naturally keep it out of the archives. We all have times in our lives when shit happens and we can't get to the forum. I have threads I've invested over a hundred hours in, just generating content, then they went into archives. I know it sucks.  But at least we can still read the content there, and linking to it is a good option.
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Just do another thread "part two" and link the original in your OP? Link: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_My_backyard_suburban_farm.html Cold: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_My_backyard_suburban_farm.html Looks like the last post was almost a year ago Ragnar may have missed the date to prevent his thread from going to archive. What's a little screwy is that he and others posted in the thread through October of 2015...13 pages in total but the web page only indicates 8 pages- Oct 2015 It's beyond my knowledge. Ragnar, I hope you continue to post updates. I really enjoyed your thread... |
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Ragnar may have missed the date to prevent his thread from going to archive. What's a little screwy is that he and others posted in the thread through October of 2015...13 pages in total but the web page only indicates 8 pages- Oct 2015 It's beyond my knowledge. Ragnar, I hope you continue to post updates. I really enjoyed your thread... Quoted:
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Just do another thread "part two" and link the original in your OP? Link: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_My_backyard_suburban_farm.html Cold: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_My_backyard_suburban_farm.html Looks like the last post was almost a year ago Ragnar may have missed the date to prevent his thread from going to archive. What's a little screwy is that he and others posted in the thread through October of 2015...13 pages in total but the web page only indicates 8 pages- Oct 2015 It's beyond my knowledge. Ragnar, I hope you continue to post updates. I really enjoyed your thread... Yes. That's not right. I'm new enough that I don't understand that. When I looked at the thread in archives, I saw the last post at Feb 2015. Let me ask somebody who knows more than I do. |
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Okay I didn't realize this was happening so fast already, but...
We have only a certain page allotment for our subforum here in Homestead/Garden. Once we mods got the ability to mark threads to not archive, those non-archive threads with good content started piling up. Now they are taking up a couple of our available pages, so threads fall into archives much more quickly. The last post in a regular thread--one not marked to not archive--was on 11/20/15. Anything earlier archives. That's fast. That's fast. Our forum has grown and has more traffic than it used to, which is a good thing. But it means threads will disappear within a few weeks if they're not active.
So even though Ragnar's thread has posts through October, it fell into archives.
I thought it had been marked to not archive, but apparently I was wrong.
OP, I hope you will follow through with a second thread. |
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yes the archive goes to 8 pages but you can manually type in the page number to get to the current pages.
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Ragnar may have missed the date to prevent his thread from going to archive. What's a little screwy is that he and others posted in the thread through October of 2015...13 pages in total but the web page only indicates 8 pages- Oct 2015 It's beyond my knowledge. Ragnar, I hope you continue to post updates. I really enjoyed your thread... Quoted:
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Just do another thread "part two" and link the original in your OP? Link: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_My_backyard_suburban_farm.html Cold: http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_19/671216_My_backyard_suburban_farm.html Looks like the last post was almost a year ago Ragnar may have missed the date to prevent his thread from going to archive. What's a little screwy is that he and others posted in the thread through October of 2015...13 pages in total but the web page only indicates 8 pages- Oct 2015 It's beyond my knowledge. Ragnar, I hope you continue to post updates. I really enjoyed your thread... |