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question everything

(48,733 posts)
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 01:09 AM Nov 2018

Resurrecting archived threads?

On a recent discussion, I posted a link for a Lounge thread from July 2016.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1018882218

Now there are two additions to that thread but, of course, one cannot view it if one just looks at current posts on the Lounge.

Yet, this thread is listed among the "Latest Threads."

Curiouser and curiouser


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Resurrecting archived threads? (Original Post) question everything Nov 2018 OP
I believe that Skinner said that threads are archived if they sink past page 30 Rhiannon12866 Nov 2018 #1
I know. Which is why I am surprised to see it posted on the "Latest Threads" question everything Nov 2018 #2
Well, you'll remember from DU.2 "the thread that will never die." Rhiannon12866 Nov 2018 #3
We killed the thread that will never die? Generic Brad Nov 2018 #5
I think it is because it hit a milestone (25 posts). demmiblue Nov 2018 #4

Rhiannon12866

(221,384 posts)
1. I believe that Skinner said that threads are archived if they sink past page 30
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 01:15 AM
Nov 2018

That's as far as it goes. Sometimes people find and reply to DU threads through Google Search - for a particular topic - but threads that are archived aren't kicked back to the top.

question everything

(48,733 posts)
2. I know. Which is why I am surprised to see it posted on the "Latest Threads"
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 01:25 AM
Nov 2018

Currently, on the Lounge, threads older than Sept 2018 are in the archives. And here we are talking July 2016!

Just curios.

back at you

Rhiannon12866

(221,384 posts)
3. Well, you'll remember from DU.2 "the thread that will never die."
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 01:38 AM
Nov 2018

If a thread is kicked often and long enough it'll never sink past page 30.

demmiblue

(37,849 posts)
4. I think it is because it hit a milestone (25 posts).
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 07:11 AM
Nov 2018

Milestone posts get bumped up to the top of the "Latest Threads" list.

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