Do you think, we should have the access to CLOSE our discussions forever?

If there have been absolutely no resonses for a certain period of time then I think this could be a functionality of use. But if there are responses, I don't there should be an option for us to delete them. The flow on effect if this were to happen would not be in the best interests of us all. We would all end up with post tally's dropping rapidly and the like for one! What we can do though, is look back on these discussions that seemed perfectly normal at the time and then reflect on how fsr we've come! Consider it a self-discovery expedition!

There should me a sort of time restriction and a prompt to ensure that this get's done within that time frame. Although this can get quite difficult in situations where time becomes a constraint and when you have a lot of quality responses in discussions.A good example would be the discussions that you start Mimpi. The point you made itself is relevant. When the idea and the motivation behind the discussion is still there in your mind it becomes much easier to resolve them. Another reason that i say this is i'm sure there are thousands of unresolved discussions still around and many of them for months together. The interest levels and the complete involvment of the participants should get ensured. In my opinion 1 month sounds a good time frame.

I wish they would let us delete them, or would just delete them after a certain length of time. It would free up some of their space also.

Hi mimpi dear! I do think that it should be one of our options to do so. I do think that some of us have discussions that we wished we should not have started or discussions that are not relevant or sounded bizarre as you have just mentioned. I sure hope that it could be one of our prerogative to do so. Take care and have a great day! lovelots..faith

It will be better so we can help the site clean it by deleting old post. We should always have new posts on the homepage so members will always be excited to find new topics. And those old posts should be deleted to give way to new ones.

I don't think MyLot are purchasing copyright to our posts so yes, I think we should be allowed to delete old threads. But my real gripe is how many subheadings there are under the main ones, and loads of them are repeated over and over. I think groups with a big crossover of similar topics should be merged into one. But only because, whenever I post a new thread, I end up having to create a new heading for it!

Many a times when I become tired of not finding a good discussion t respond I have gone back to the old discussions of my best friend's like you and started to respond to them.However outdated or bizarre they may look for you they are still worth than the thousands of crap down here.

yup,sometimes i do love to close a discussion.as you said,they sound so irrelevant.some of my discussions as old as 3 years,i think how on earth i could start such stupid discussion. but on the other hand ,i do love when new members respond to my old disscussions.as you implied,it is a zig-zag game.

What a fantastic idea/suggestion you have given I fully endorse it and completely agree with you that we should be given some sort of access to close our older discussions, which are say more than one or two years old. As you have very rightly said that those older discussions might have lost the relevance in today's context. However, my limited knowledge regarding mylot tells me perhaps it is not possible for us to close our discussions. Else, we should have a option to write to mylot with a request to close some of our older discussions. Alternatively, mylot can transfer our very old discussion in trash or recyclebin, after the lapse of some stipulated time.

Hi Mimpi, I guess it would be nice to have that capability given to us. As it is, we can't even edit our discussion. I would love for this editing capability more in fact. myLot can do it in a way where other people can still see the differences in changes should they really want. Anyway, myLot has not introduced this so I guess there must be a reason. Maybe they just want as many of myLot pages on cyberspace as possible - which is a very sensible business rationale. Beats me really.

No I think discussions should and can go on forever. Some topics may become dated but the most part can go on forever. I have had some of mine revived too and I have also been responsable for reviving those of other users when I felt they were still relevant. I am happy for mine to be out there forever and wold not like to be able to close them because just like when discussing offline, a topic could always come back to life.

Oh! Sorry about that mimpi. I have a habit of keeping friend's started discussions notifications if I cant respond to them right away and just respond to them when I have the time. As you might have noticed. So most of my friends' discussions are bumped up and I guess that would bring in more responses to those discussions that I 'brought up' through responding. Yeah I guess that would be one of the new features, functions, and commands that they can add to the myLot site. A closed discussion can lead to members looking for other open discussions and I think that would direct traffic or way to those newer discussions or discussions that doesnt have that much responses. Why not, post on a comment on that response that you consider to be the 'very last one' and say that you would like to close this discussion in bold and print letters...? Im sure there would still be one or two or perhaps some who might still respond but at least you gave others the 'announcement'.

This discussion itself is a bit old one but it has not yet lost its validity and will never be so, as it appears to me. This thought came to me too a few days back while I wanted to delete a few of the ones I started though there are not many in my credit. The provision for deletion as you suggested will be a welcome feature, so far as I am concerned. Actually when I joined mylot first and what I am now has changed much. Reading good posts like yours making mylot addictive. Now a few of the initial ones appear trivial and whenever I think that along with my profile they would be visible to others, I do not feel happy. So I want to go along with your proposal.

I am not sure. I have things on other sites, and I still get hits on them.

Yes,it is necessary. However, in my case, I do not remember any discussion that has been backdated. Actually, as far as possible, I strike the last reply, then I stop. So, unless someone searches and revives it, it's in archieve. I do not find any problem with this.

I also think that there should be an options to delete the discussions or the responses others post in our discussion. I think there should not be a time limit for closing the discussion. It should be like if a person want to close the discussion he or she started they can do it and it should not be automatically or time restricted.

Hi Mou Hope u must be doing Well u always come with New Idea And sure this one is nice and unique idea, and i am sure many would love to have this access. i think the only reason for not having this access is that with this numbver of post get effected and so is Payment, not only one who started but also those who commented on it but if mylot add one rule that "if my lott delete any discussion as it was against rules then it effect payment and number of post/rating, but if Intitator delete it, it remain unchanged Think about It Take care

I think that closing out old discussions would kind of defeat the purpose. Don't the number of discussions we start in each category go towards rankings? Not that I'm interested in rankings for myself, just thought that's one of the ways they work. Having old discussions coming back to life shouldn't be a bad thing. Sure, your emotions of when the discussion was written might not be the same any more, but you can see where you were at then and where you are now and use it to 'chart' your progress. I don't mind if my old discussions are revived. It is always nice to know that I can be found through the searches etc, because then I know that what I write is still interesting to people. i like to think I start interesting discussions, but the only way to know for sure is getting responses, and the type of responses, which count more.

Well, I see what you mean. You are definitely right. Some discussions are out of date in so far as the emotions and feelings are concerned. There is a possibility that we might not be able to reply properly anymore or perhaps wont be interested to reply anymore. I think that this is a very good suggestion though there is a disadvantage to this. Some other members might still find the topic great despite being old and will not be able to post a reply anymore considering that it is already closed.

Hi Mimpi. I do believe that it would be nice if we could indeed close a discussin we've started that we no longer wish to address. I have wondered myself why that option is not already here! Karen