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Dennis HackethalOP revised 1 day ago·#2701

Old ideas can pollute discussions. Like in this meta thread.

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Dennis HackethalOP, 1 day ago·#2703

Proposed solution: edit a discussion to hide top-level ideas. That way, discussion owners can hide ideas they no longer deem relevant.

For example, completed tasks in discussions used as issue trackers, like this Meta thread, could be hidden so they don’t pollute the thread.

There could be a button for users to reveal hidden ideas so nothing is lost or hidden dishonestly. And direct links to hidden ideas would continue to work.

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This requires manual action. Could mean a lot of work depending on the discussion.

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People might just forget to do this.

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There could be periodic reminders and a review board to make it easier.

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That could just annoy people and cause them to unsubscribe from emails.

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Dennis HackethalOP revised about 13 hours ago·#2725

Proposed solution: ideas with pending criticisms could be archived automatically if they haven’t had any activity in the past 30 days, say.

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Proposed solution: allow people to archive ideas. Maybe only their own.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 13 hours ago·#2726

#2725 and #2711 are implemented as of 34fc694.

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