The post about the 25 Soldiers arrested from Ft. Riley is gone. Why does RP insist on removing popular posts?

CW4 Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:12:01 -0500

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 14 at 2016 1:15 AM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:15:06 -0500

Usually it is due to duplication.
It is irritating to me as well, Chief. Sometimes it seems pretty arbritrary.

Response by CW4 Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 14 at 2016 1:18 AM

CW4 Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 01:18:02 -0500

This is becoming increasingly annoying. I make a post on a topic one day. Overnight, people will reply or give a thumbs up. I come in the next day to see what the comments are, and the whole thread is gone. It appears to be connected to posts that have a news article linked to the topic. Is there some new legal issue with linking in news articles to discussion topics? How is this any different than linking web pages in Facebook? Why is this new interface need to separate links from questions? WTF RP?

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 14 at 2016 2:10 AM

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 02:10:38 -0500

If a thread is started as a question, and an admin decides it should have been a share a link, can't the admin move it to that category instead of deleting it and losing all the discussion? Likewise with duplicate topics. Does this site have a merge thread function so that you merge the discussion reolies into the main thread before deleting the second thread?

Response by SSG Daniel Deiler made Jan 14 at 2016 6:12 AM

SSG Daniel Deiler — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 06:12:34 -0500

From my understanding, threads about the same question are merged together.

Response by SGT Jay Ehrenfeld made Jan 14 at 2016 11:59 PM

SGT Jay Ehrenfeld — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:59:30 -0500

Chief best suggestions on this question just ignored all of the except for the post by Rally Point goes from there.