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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Archiving old posts. I’ll see one asking for advice, read the OP and the last few responses and respond .  THEN realize that the post is over a year old, and someone revived it and it’s no longer relevant [/quote]

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Jesus yes. Sometimes the thread is 5 years old. [/quote]

I think the old threads should just be deleted rather than locked. Here is my reasoning: the only reason to preserve them is if they provide useful info.* Old threads generally don't. In the meantime, textual identification software is becoming more and more sophisticated, and what feels anonymous now probably isn't long-term, given a large enough corpus of posts and sufficiently sophisticated AI to differentiate authors. Look at the (shoddily done, and methodologically weak) Brookings study, and now imagine 10-20 years of old threads in the hands of an organization that is actively malevolent rather than just clueless about good methodology in nature.

IMO with a large enough body of old threads to mine, DCUM posters -- many of whom have posted deeply personal things -- will be identified some day. There is already excellent textual analysis software available, and it will only improve.

* It's possible Jeff gets some revenue from the old threads too though my guess is that it is not as much as recent threads.[/quote]

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