The main difference between Forums like this and most other forms of 'social media' is the continued access to every post and thread that's been put up by the Member Community, forming a searchable and significant database of information that doesn't get swamped and lost in amongst all the other minutiae that follows; and in this Forum, the threads and individual posts are all contributing to a living and growing collection of knowledge, experience, and discussion about all things Spyder/Ryker related that's gathered here for current and future members to access now and in the future... So why would you want to get rid of this thread and all the valuable discussion and info in it?? :yikes:
Besides, we try
VERY HARD NOT to do
what you've requested up there ^ cos doing that
DOES hurt the Forum's standing with the big search engines and it only takes a little bit of that before they start dropping us down their results listings or even completely off their search results....
And if we get downgraded/dropped off their results, our Sponsors stop getting all that much in the way of benefit from their investment here, putting their continued sponsorship at risk. And if we lose
them and their valued contributions, it puts the Forum's continued operations at risk, possibly even at risk of closure!! Surely
you don't want to be even a part of that, do you? :dontknow:
It's for these reasons that Members no longer have access to the 'Delete' option on their posts - too many needless deletions were threatening the Forum's continued operation & we were edging closer to risking closure! nojoke
This is also why we ask that you don't use the 'edit' facility to gut/empty your posts once they've been posted, not even years after the fact - any OP editing their posts to effectively take the content out of them and leaving nothing but 'Delete' or words to that effect (or a lack of words!
) is basically making a direct attack on the Forum's continued viability, and while we've been somewhat tolerant of that being done once or twice in the past, that is far less likely to be the case any longer!!
:lecturef_smilie:
So
No, the Mods won't be deleting the entire thread; and if
you are no longer interested in it,
your best course of action is to stop posting in it. If you're subscribed to the thread, either because you started it or because you elected to subscribe to it, then you should probably un-subscribe.... Over time, others will likely do the same once their interest wanes, but the thread will remain so that if anyone ever wants to research this subject at any time in the future, it's still available; and if they want to ask questions or expand on the discussion, they can add to it! Ideally, members will
ALWAYS search before starting a new thread, and they'd only ever start a new thread on any given subject if their question or discussion point wasn't directly related to that of the existing thread/s, but despite the Mod Team's best efforts at merging and re-directing posters,
especially those too lazy to bother making any effort themselves &/or expecting others to do all the work for them, we've all seen how many oil & tire threads there are out there!! :gaah: It
shouldn't happen, but it does! :banghead:
) Anyhow, I'll just quote what I posted in another recent thread... 
