There’s an easier way! We are tagging those threads as either early-decision or early-action (or both). If you visit the tag page (Topics tagged early-decision) you will see a bell icon that opens the following menu:
If you know you don’t want to see those threads, go ahead and mute them. If there are a few schools you are most interested in seeing, you can individually unmute those topics. From the way the option is worded and a quick test, I don’t believe this mutes old threads, however.
I’m also looking into ways for us to bulk close all the previous year’s early admission topics so that they don’t get confused with the current year. Again, the tags help.