Archive all pre-NBT suggestions

[Carver]

Per the title, it's really weird to see these ancient threads necro'd with dismissals or whatever. Every single one of them was made in the context of a map we haven't used in 1 1/2 years, so a lot of their original points aren't really valid anymore. Let's look at two "recent" examples; the suggestion to remove the spare ID was in a time when the bridge was a vestigial area of the map that nobody but the Captain and antags used, and the suggestion to remove the barista and second bartender slot was in a time where we had 1 bar counter that was shared between 2 people and themed as nothing but a plain bar.

It may also be discouraging for people who wish to make a thread on a matter who've seen an ancient, outdated thread of a similar subject be dismissed. Once more looking back to the thread on the spare, you can make some very fine arguments to have it removed or replaced on the current map; but none of those arguments would have been presented in that now-dismissed thread created nearly a third of a decade ago. If you attempt to make a thread on it now, what's the risk of someone linking that ancient piece of shit and going 'we talked about this already (three years ago)'?

Final point, it'd clear up the suggestions forum. Ancient threads with ideas that have either probably been implemented in the years since, were relevant to some mechanic that may no longer exist or a map/gameplay 'meta' that hasn't been around for a long time aren't really going to offer much of anything to anyone.

[GeneralCamo]

I can get behind this. I can sympathize with cleaning up the forum. But a more brute force method may be preferred to the "standard" procedural way.

[Gem]

the threads should've ideally been silently locked and archived. anyways, i'll look into this.

[Dreamix]

I think this is a good idea. Really annoying to see activity in the forum, and then open it up and it's threads from 2017.

[Gem]

done. i have archived all suggestions with no activity in the past 6 months.
if a suggestion still isn't implemented after all this time, then it's likely not going to be implemented at all.
one can always make a new suggestion or look in the archive for inspiration.