When should we close topics? (autoclose?)

[NicoAlt]

@anon99929151

I’m guessing that if it’s one month we do have to make some exceptions for topics that should stay open and we’ll probably manually reopen some topics if they come up again. It’s probably best to just pick and try and then adjust if we feel it’s not quite right.

I have now set it to automatically close topics after 60 days, i.e. two months, on all category, except Staff, Wiki and Package Thread. Let’s see how this works.

@anon99929151

No, it’s just that a very high percentage of spam posts in the Fairphone forum are about some data recovery tools so those topics are usually where they get posted. Obviously we don’t close them before OP gets a satisfactory answer - unless they are the spammer themselves.

Ah, thanks for the explanation! I haven’t noticed that any type of topic attracts spam in F-Droid, but we will see.

@anon99929151

Maybe there is by now.

This goes into the right direction:

Mass close topics?

I just did it by closing all topics with the last activity happened before Feb 16. If I understand your message and the feature correctly, only newly created topics will be affected, so we will have to handle all topics that are yet available manually? Or will old topics, starting from tomorrow, be closed automatically, too?