` Please start new discussion at the bottom of this talk page, or use the EDIT button beside the section heading to add to it. This ``section edit button`` is important, so please use it > Category:Main Page           =General discussion=  __TOC__   == Archiving ==  Hi everybody. Currently, when a topic isn't replied to for 3 days, it's archived by . I propose shortening this to only two days. My main reason is that because main page content changes every day, a thread that hasn't been replied to for three days is really out dated, and probably not useful for somebody reading this talk page. Furthermore, most posts that haven't been replied to in the last two days won't get replied to in the third day either, they just take up space. Right now, we've got a lot of irrelevant discussions-error reports and bias jokes. If these got archived quicker, the page would be a lot more readable. Any thoughts?  -email)  :I'd support that for the reasons you gave, but there's one problem, I've noticed that almost almost all of the discussions that actually should be here usually go through short 3 day periods where no one replays to them, then at the last minute someone does and the discussion carry's on. As those are the conversations that this page is actually used for I'd say we need to either leave it at three, or manually archive the discussions that are obviously finished, :On that topic, does anyone know if there is a tag that MiszaBot will recognise and archive the discussion irrelevant of time restraints?  /   ::Hmm... I haven't observed the trend of threads being inactive for three days and then being replied to, but perhaps you're right. I'd still like to see further discussion on this matter though.No, there isn't such a template. I don't think it would be very useful, MiszaBot only runs once a day (twice for the administrators noticeboard). However, nothing prevents us from manually archiving finished discussions.  -email)   :::It does happen sometimes (having been the person who replied after about 3 days sometimes) although I'm not quite sure myself how important some of those threads are. We could settle on a compromise of 60 hours...? Does anyone know who chose 3 days? I couldn't remember how I decided on 3 days when setting up the Miszabot archiving , it appears I just followed the old Werdnabot code . There doesn't appear to be a way to force an archive on next update and you're right, it doesn't sound like it would be that useful but I noticed on  it's suggested you use sometimes like  to prevent an archive     ::::Yes, a fake time stamp will work of course. I didn't think of that. But that can obviously only work to delay archival, not to make it quicker (unless you delete the timestamps of all who have replied in the last three days, but still leave a timestamp older than three days).I think we should manually archive threads that are obviously finished but I'm hesitant to make judgement calls, maybe it really is better to wait until the posts are archived automatically. I think your choice of three days was a good one at the time, but I think that today we're getting a lot more posts and it might be time to discuss this issue.  -email)  :::::I don't see why this is needed. It's not like this page