posted by Laurence on Mon 21st Jul 2008 08:44
What's this currently set to and is it worth extending it (or possibly even removing it altogether?) While I see the point in a time limit on news items, because a conversation doesn't have to be (and often isn't) bleeding edge news plus the fact that most people don't check conversations frequently, I don't really see the point in a time limit on conversation threads before they're closed off.
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I think the timeout is generous - 5 days after the LAST post. If a conversation is dead for 5 straight days, I doubt many are still checking it. I don't know, what do you think it should be?
It's not 5 days after /last/ post because in my music thread theres a post on the 17th and I was unable to reply to another comment last night (the 20th).
Member since:2006-07-30
How about some exponential decay?
Lets say a discussion is open while it has a score>9 where the score is calculated like this:
score=a0*exp(b0*(conv_start_time - current_time))
for c in comments: score+=a1*exp(b1*(c.time - current_time))
You could even factor things like user trust into a0, a1, b0, b1.
Alternatively, I'd suggest at least 7 days after last reply because some people have to work on Saturdays.
Anything longer than 14 days would be nuts, imo.
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