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Originally Posted by Glorfindel
I would think that if the 'Similar Threads' section was changed so any threads over a year for example, didn't show, it would fix quite a lot of the problems.
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Excellent suggestion. I thought there was already a cutoff date in place, but I was mistaken. There's a technical difficulty though:
Similar threads are determined at the time a thread is created - they are never changed unless we manually run the routines to update similar threads, which doesn't scale well if you do it for all threads at once. So, although we could add a cutoff time to, let's say six months, once the thread has been created, the similar threads won't be updated anymore. So an older thread will only have even older threads listed as similar threads. Newer threads won't be added.
It's not a great system, and it might even be worthwhile to consider turning it off for that reason.
