Just wanted to ask really why discussions have to be closed sometimes. I know there are other threads sometimes which have discussions about the same things so i understand that it would be silly to have everyone start discussions on the same thing, but when it comes to things like wedding dresses etc and what style u have, which i opened a discussion on, it was closed and another one bumped up which was roughly about the same thing but it had over 500 pages to trawl through! i really wouldnt want to have to keep clicking through the pages to get to the most recent post and also some of the discussions are from a year or 2 ago and 2bh i dont want to know about someones wedding dress style in 2009 cos its prob not in stock anywhere or the latest fashion anymore! it would be the same for cakes or flowers etc, if its from a couple of years ago could we not keep the newer discussion open so we dont have to trawl through pages of old stuff and styles or tips that r no longer relelvant or useful?
i understand the need to close discussions when ppl talk about the same thing, for instance what first dance song r u having, then a week later whats ur first dance song on a different thread, but if its been a good while can the old ones just be gotten rid of and the newer ones stay open? maybe im just too lazy or havent found a way to be quicker at doing this yet but i spend a lot of time on here so every second counts! lol
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CommentAuthorVintageChic
If you read the rules you'll see part of it states:
These three simple checks might sound like common sense, however its often easy to get carried away! And no one wants to have to trawl through 10 different discussions all talking about the same thing to find the nugget of useful information!
Please do NOT repeat the same topic over and over, if someone has made a post about something then don't post the same topic two minutes later. We have a search facility that will help you find a topic or look on the first five or so pages, if what you want isn't there then by all means post. There are several sticky posts at the top of the page (introducing newbies, sharing your wedding date on the calender) please use these so we don't get repeat topics.
basically it's just about keeping the forum in a nice and neat package. It's hard to find a balance when some members cant stand repeat topics whereas others cant stand topics being closed and re-directed.
It was a general opinion though that closing and re-directing will keep all the essential information in one place making it easier for all members to find and share. A lot of the brides here tend to just skip the beginnings of the larger threads and make their way to more recent posts to find more date relevent information.
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CommentAuthorSpecialSundae
I'm afraid that I agree with FutureMrsPite. The constant closing of discussions and dredging up ones with hundreds of replies that haven't been touched for months is intensely frustrating and makes this forum very user unfriendly.
CommentAuthorVintageChic
just doing a job.... lol
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CommentAuthorRoxy
I understand where the girls are coming from but then again, I love reading through some of the threads that have been bumped as they are usually full of really useful info, as the topic has been addressed before. I understand about dresses and changing fashion etc but with regards to others things, that don't change season to season, I usually find out more from the old threads than from the new copy versions :)
the rules do state that you shouldn't post a similar topic 'two minutes later' - so surely the first comment about deleting much older threads so that new ones can be started is relevant here? Plus the fact you get heart points for starting new threads is also much harder if you can't post a topic if someone else who probably left the forum ages ago started one in 2009!
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I kinda agree with both! its best having the forum neat and tidy but when I've had a thread bumped up for me that has over 200 replies I do tend to just think 'well i cant be bothered reading through that' lol! maybe some of the really old ones should be deleted so that new threads on the subject can be started xx
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CommentAuthorsuzky123
i think ones over 12 months should be deleted. Times change and so do the trends and yes it may be nice to see the advice occasionally but in all honesty how many of us actually do read anything more than 6-12 months old? I know I dont. I think deleting threads that are so old and keeping the site up to date and moving forward instead of standing still is essential and deleting older posts that noone bothers with anymore would definitely tidy up the site.
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CommentAuthorAtaraxia
I have to say I personally prefer the current system because it does help.
This is only my personal take but I have been here for almost two years I think now and after a while it does start to get very annoying reading the same restarted topics over and over. My personal bugbear is first dance threads or music threads in general, there are literally dozens! It becomes obvious that people aren't using search functions and tbh it just gets old. It happens with everything from china dresses to giving notice... There's hundreds and hundreds of the same thing!
It's not as though the mods are preventing new threads from being started... There are still lots of new threads but it doesn't make sense to start a new thread every few months just because the posts might be dated.... Just because a thread is old doesn't mean you can't revive it and invite newer replies!
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CommentAuthorpennieb-MrsRiley
I don't understand why there would be a need to click through every single page on an older thread when a thread with multiple pages will always have the last page marked? For instance, the thread at the top of the board at the moment about dresses has 12 pages - and from any page in there you can click on "1" for the first page or "12" for the last page. I understand not wanting to trawl through lots of older posts but there really shouldn't be a need when you can skip to the last page, and therefore the newest posts.
I have to agree with ataraxia, as a member who has been here for quite some time, seeing new threads on topics where I know that there is another one is really frustrating - especially when I can find that older one in seconds with a search! It really does suggest that people aren't using the search function at all!
In so far as not being able to create a new thread to be able to get the heart points - a new thread is worth 40 points, a post on a current thread is worth 20 points, so really there's not much in it at all and you will find that if you're chatting regularly on the various posts anyway you shouldn't have an issue gaining more points anyway! It is another bugbear of mine on here that every now and again you get a fairly new member who creates several new threads at once, often on things where there's already a thread or for things that probably ought to be raised in the chinwag thread instead, and it seems that it's just a point-earning exercise rather than a real need to create these threads!
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CommentAuthorRoxy
I also agree with Pennieb in the numerous thread posts by one member in a day, when really they could be added onto older posts or put in chinwag, it's not so bad now but a while back it was particulary bad, not mentioning any names of course, but I found that really fustrating and the front page was clogged up with so many tiedious threads from the same member! I can't begin to imagine the stick the mods get for doing thier job, and if people read the rules properly maybe there wouldn't be so much conflict regarding posts being deleted etc.
CommentAuthorLegoWife
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I think there needs to be a balance. Some topics do need to be made a new, the other day I made another wedding website thread even though I knew there were already a few because with the no links rule it would have made it impossible for me to find the information I actually needed.
However, dress threads probably don't need to be remade and remade. When it comes to dress designer threads, maybe they could be kept to a different thread a year, or a different thread a season, cause as someone else said, posts about designers from years ago are no good to "this generation" of brides.
I know the whole neat and tidy thing is important, but I think some key threads need to be stickied.
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CommentAuthorx~Hails~x
Its been mentioned several times above about points and not been able to get them for one reason or another so i would just like to point out that once ALL the power user tools are up and running the whole points system and how to get them is changing anyway!! So they will no longer be restricted to the forum for example if you click on an add on your wall you will get 10 points or if you click on something in the super market you will get 10 points or if you use someone who advertisers here on ukbride then you get 40 points etc etc to encourage members to use the WHOLE site not just the forum!
So please don't worry about points because the whole thing is changing anyway.
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CommentAuthorFutureMrsPite
im not fussed when it comes to the points as im quite happy to read what other members put and i usually always have an opinion and make a comment so i dont feel like i need start a discussion just for points sake. it does just grate on me a bit that there r numerous threads about the same thing and it is hard to find the answers ur looking for sometimes and might feel like u have to start with a different question to get the answer u want even if it is the same subject and if that gets closed then it can be fustrating. lets face it, this is a wedding website, where everyone talks about everything to do with weddings, there will come a point where theres only so much you can talk about b4 ur talking about the same as someone else! in the end there will be no new discussions! unless there r changes to policies or new things invented etc to do with weddings. i would like to see some of the older ones gone that r outdated. at the same time some like wedding music could go on forever as some ppl might like older songs etc. i know its a contraversial (is that how its spelt?) subject and at the end of the day it is up to the mods and makers of the site to decide what happens, and of course majority rules, just needed to give my view on the subject!
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CommentAuthorTasha_Q2B
Find this annoying too!! Didn't wanna read answers from 3 years ago!! Wanted this years responses to get a better idea what people are doing! Think some older threads need to be deleted as some have no relevance to todays wedding planning!! Just a thought!! I did look through older threads top before posting a discussion, couldnt find the huge link with mainly really old answers on and then got rudely told to make sure I done these things. I know the mods are only doing there job but I didn't expect such an abrupt response! Just saying!
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