Quote (njaguar @ Sun, 22 Feb 2009, 19:01)

This would make any closed topic moved so far to the back of the page list, that it would be unreachable. The extra load to change such on the back end wouldn't warrant such a change, and it'd make more sense to "auto archive" closed posts instead, in my opinion, since they would essentially be unviewable anyway.

However, I still don't think this is the best of ideas, for a number of reasons, specifically related to non-trade forums, and the multitude of reasons why a topic may be closed.

One case point: Site Suggestions. Unless they were auto archived @ close, then people wouldn't see some of the more commonly nixed ideas. And auto archive assumes one would read the archives.

Quote (RewtheBrave @ Wed, Dec 10 2008, 10:39pm)

The idea is to re-order how we see topics so that while Open and Closed topics would be sorted by date, the Open topics would be seen first.

Potential Problem: this "bumps" old open topics up a lot.
Potential Solution: make it work day-by-day or month-by-month, based on Last Post. Day-by-day assumes people will Track topics.

PRO: This helps in forums like the trading forums, where closed topics still appear above open topics, and in off-topic forums it might be nice because some of them get ugly.

Thanks for looking at this suggestion. It would involve a big change in how each forum looks, so for that reason I worry that it might be "too big" to be pretty. Thanks for any comment/votes

Quote (metalworks @ Thu, Dec 11 2008, 01:26am)

i like the basic idea of excluding closed topics from the top space.

but i think it would be better if there is a trashbox subforum for closed topics in each trading forum, where illegal (or 60+ replies) topics are moved after closed.
it's just like site suggestions archive vs this subforum.
i've seen trade mods moving wrong place scammer accusations from trading grounds to s/a forum.
i hope they could do the same thing to closed topics.