Very rapid marking of a post of mine as 'done'.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Wed 08 Feb, 2012 9:37 am

Phill_dvsn wrote: I'm not sure what's happening here!Leodians original 1975 subway thread has been marked as closed again, and when I look down the general chat section there are six threads marked as done in total on the first page! This Weetwood Aqueduct thread was posted on only the other dayhttp://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Messages.as ... ID=3067Now it's marked as done.The other closed threads are *Park Row Leeds circa 1879*"Made in Leeds" *May 1985 the Clash busking in Leeds *Best Bread IF IT HELPS:-*Weetwood Aqueduct, as agreed Chameleon morphed it to Blackmoor tunnel (of which it is part) so = ok.*Park Row Leeds circa 1879 - if that was mine where I couldnt reconcile JA Grimshaw's pic to the Catholic Cathedral - I may have ticked done in over-zealous own house keep.*Made in Leeds - (if mine) =same*May 85 Clash busking = no info on this amazing uk rock history so I closed*Best Bread = I closedSo none of those are unexplained but happy for you to reopen, didn't wanna clog up or bore SL ffolke

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Wed 08 Feb, 2012 9:47 am

I would think it's always best to leave threads open, no matter how dead you may think they are at the time. I've seen numerous threads pop back to life 2-3 years later, initially they might not have being very interesting, but the info the new poster has added starts a great thread off. Any info on S.L is cached in the search engines, and there is always people looking for information on Leeds history, if they come across a closed thread they'd not be able to add what could be valuable info in the future.The threads wouldn't clog up the Secret Leeds disk space really. Anyone wanting to add info to a closed thread would have to start a new one, and duplicate threads would only take up more disk space, and make the site less user friendly.The threads, if they are truly dead would just steadily drop away down the list and away to oblivion languishing at the very back of the topic list, there they really wouldn't matter if they were closed or open i.m.o

Tasa · Post by **Tasa** » Wed 08 Feb, 2012 10:14 am

I agree with everything you've said above, Phill - new posters come with a wealth of information and personal memories and can often add unexpected twists to something we thought we'd discussed to death! An example of an old thread providing useful information happened only yesterday. A friend of mine is reading the biography of Charles Dickens and found a mention of his visit to Leeds, so he Googled this and one of the results was this thread:http://www.secretleeds.com/forum/Messag ... ID=2936The link in that thread is worth a read - Dickens wasn't very impressed with what Leeds had to offer!

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Wed 08 Feb, 2012 10:34 am

Leeds may not be overly enamoured by what Dickens offered it..I once sat through a Yorkshire Post Literary Luncheon where Monica Dickens gave a talk. Not enough sarnies I recall.

Post by **chameleon** » Wed 08 Feb, 2012 11:28 am

Jogon wrote: Phill_dvsn wrote: I'm not sure what's happening here!Leodians original 1975 subway thread has been marked as closed again, and when I look down the general chat section there are six threads marked as done in total on the first page! This Weetwood Aqueduct thread was posted on only the other dayhttp://www.secretleeds.co.uk/forum/Messages.as ... ID=3067Now it's marked as done.The other closed threads are *Park Row Leeds circa 1879*"Made in Leeds" *May 1985 the Clash busking in Leeds *Best Bread IF IT HELPS:-*Weetwood Aqueduct, as agreed Chameleon morphed it to Blackmoor tunnel (of which it is part) so = ok.*Park Row Leeds circa 1879 - if that was mine where I couldnt reconcile JA Grimshaw's pic to the Catholic Cathedral - I may have ticked done in over-zealous own house keep.*Made in Leeds - (if mine) =same*May 85 Clash busking = no info on this amazing uk rock history so I closed*Best Bread = I closedSo none of those are unexplained but happy for you to reopen, didn't wanna clog up or bore SL ffolke That explains some things but not everything we've seen.Aquaduct thread - yes worked as agreed with advisory note at end of thread. Now it's content is definitely moved, I'll go further and delete it to keep future info together in one place.Other than that, I posted earlier that I agree with others about leaving threads open - very few need locking (as distinct to closing) and the inappropriate and irrelevant ones are usually deleted within policy when they arise (infrequent).

Post by **dsco** » Wed 08 Feb, 2012 2:09 pm

Hello folks. I've had a look into this and to be honest I'm as baffled as you guys.What I have discovered is that if you mark a thread as done (which is quite easy to do by accident, as I just discovered by doing it to this thread... oh the irony) the only way to reverse that is by posting a new message on the thread. You can't 'untick' the done box.Will keep you posted if I find out anything more!