Forum:When to shut down blogs

Occasionally, people will go through the blogs and add a comment to a blog that hasn't been active for a while. Sometimes it's not a big deal because it's a general discussion blog and someone might have something new to add. But for the blogs that are about a problem or a complaint, those are usually already resolved and new comments would not be necessary.

We should set a time limit on how long a blog stays active after the last comment is posted. The cut-off date would be determined by the timestamp of the comment that is at the top of the list. This will prevent us from having to go through every single comment to see if a newer one was added as a reply further down the stack. On blogs that have several hundred comments, it can take quite a bit of time to check the date of every single comment to determine which one is newest.

I propose that the time limit be no more than three months after that top-most comment is added. Two months might be more than enough time to show that a blog has ended naturally. Commenting would be disabled after that point. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 23:32, March 12, 2011 (UTC)