Can Inappropriate Thread Titles Be Cleaned Up in Tutorial Sections?

[FredGarvin]

Is there any way to have all of the inappropriate thread titles removed from the tutorial sections? I like to link to tutorials in posts and with a lot of the "moved" thread titles in there it just makes it take a bit longer because a lot of good posts get pushed back a couple of pages. Thanks.

 

[Evo]

Redirects gone.

I think one day should be long enough for redirects to remain.

 

[Doc Al]

That should be plenty. As a "good housekeeping" policy, whenever I move a thread I set the redirect to expire in 2 days.

 

[Moonbear]

I usually set the redirects a bit longer, expiring in 3-5 days, if the person making the post in there is brand new since I don't know how quickly they'll check back, and they obviously are posting there because they don't know the site well enough yet to know where their post might have gone.

 

[FredGarvin]

Groovy. Thanks guys.

 

[Moonbear]

There were probably a bunch of old redirects left lingering around from before we had the ability to make them expire after a few days. Thanks for bringing that to our attention.

 

[Pyrrhus]

I think it needs cleaning again... Sorry to bother you folks.

 

[Doc Al]

Got 'em. The existing redirects will expire within an hour.

 

[Astronuc]

Would it be worth setting permissions (restrictions) on that directory, although that might defeat the purpose of interactivity?

 

[jtbell]

I just moved another homework question out of the tutorials forum, and made a sticky post that says "don't post homework here," and explains what kinds of postings are appropriate.

I think some people are confused by the word "tutorial." They associate it with personal "tutoring" on homework problems etc.

 

[Astronuc]

Thanks, jt!