TO: CC
Someone posted about Eaglebrook and Cardigan, I bought up a thread, granted from two years ago, titled Junior Boarding Schools, which was all about the two schools and you guys deleted it?! I take a breathier from CC, come back and get deleted, not a nice way to be welcomed.
cc: Prep School Admission - unless you delete this too!
Welcome back.
Old discussions should be used for research only and should not be resurrected. New comments/questions should be addressed on a newer thread or, if one does not exist, a new one can be started.
When I found CC 8 years ago, I read every thread on the Prep School Forum. Over the following years there were great discussions with a lot of back and forth. In other words, there are many valuable threads that may be dated but never get “old”. What gets old is the acronym school verbiage and the discourse of tier levels which I guess some will never comprehend which is very unfortunate because it is precisely that which runs counter to “fit” coupled with the major dynamics, challenges and traditions of each and every boarding school.
Don’t expect anyone to read every thread today. No offense, but my college kid could create a better search engine. Resurrecting a dated thread (2 years & only 2 pages) can be very valid to a current poster. I can understand the desire for new threads but instead of one size fits all, maybe a little cogitation before deleting renewed “old” threads. IMHO.
+10000 to @ops. I found MUCH more useful information reading old threads than I have in the more current threads which all seem to be centered on how do I get into an acronym school…
A better way to handle this is to create a new thread but with a link to the old one(s). The problem with resurrecting old threads is that some people don’t realize they’re stale and start giving advice to a students who made their decision years ago or quibble with information that was valid at the time of posting but is no longer accurate.
@Sue22 I see your point. But, if old threads are deleted vs. just being locked to further comment, then we lose all that intel. And, if age is the determinate factor as to whether a thread could be helpful, then maybe CC should write the program to automatically delete or close a thread past a given date cutoff (tongue in cheek suggestion, BTW). 
^ I agree, @London203, although I have to say that I have rarely seen whole threads deleted unless the OP was deliberately provocative or the thread went seriously off the rails. Usually when a stale thread is resurrected the mods just close the thread to new comments. A thread like the one the OP here describes should remain for those of us who are willing to do deep searches. I wonder if it was deleted by mistake?
How many people new to the forum do “deep searches”?
@london203 @Sue22 FYI, the original 2 year-old thread still exists; it’s just buried back 2 years. It is @ops comment that bumped the thread that was deleted.
@skieurope Thanks for the clarification!
@sevendad I suspect very few people go any further back then the past 2-3 screens of threads. It is their loss as there is a treasure trove of info on CC, if they are willing to do a bit of work.
@skieurope, that’s very reasonable. I looked for the thread before I posted intending to add a link, but not knowing the title couldn’t locate it, thus my response. Thanks for your clarification.
@SevenDad-it’s really pretty easy if you’re looking for something specific and/or something that doesn’t have a million posts, e.g., “Will I get into Harvard?” . For instance, if you search for “Eaglebrook” you end up with close to 3 year old posts within the first 3 pages. I often look for old threads when I’m looking for something in particular. I’ve found some of them very helpful.
Sorry, I really did mean to start a ruckus. A knee jerk reaction on my part. Going forward, if need be, I will copy and paste an old thread into a new thread. There really is a lot of good substance in the old material, which still holds so true for much of today.
@Sue22: Honestly I don’t think many newcomers to the BS forum use the search tool. Ever. If they did, 75% of the questions (like what to wear to an interview, etc.) would never be asked again.
This is not unique to the BS forum.
I also found the best information in older threads, but it can be very hard to find the jewels within the muck. Some old threads deserve to be perennial.
I’ve used the search function a lot for looking up specific schools. It’s been really helpful (when there are actually posts about them).
So if I go to one of the at least two threads on the Bunkel Index and write “bumping 10 char”, what happens? because I was seriously amused by cogitating (ha, @ops!) on some of those timeless posts the other day
@Charger78 The moderator skieurope could delete the “10 char” reply and the thread gets buried back.
If you create a new thread with a post containing the links to the old threads, the post would survive.
There is no longer a 10 character min on posts, so “10 char” is extraneous.
If it’s ancient, often the post gets reported as necroing a thread, and a mod will either delete the post without comment, add a comment not to revive old threads, and/or close the thread.
Do you go through, like, moderator training?