Subforums with many inactive discussions

[Beverly]

What would you do for a subforum on your site that has many older discussions but few responses? Do you delete the discussions, lock them or bump them with an answer? Or, maybe you could require moderators to post to the discussions, thus giving the appearance of activity on old threads. What would your solution be?

 

[Jamie1]

If a sub-forum is inactive, I tend to merge them into the parent forum until there is more need for the child forum to return.

 

[angie828]

I would have mods make posts on them or post in them myself. Or even ask a friend to post there for me on certain topics. You could also hire a paid poster for a bit just to get the ball rolling there if you feel the need to.

 

[PandahFish]

I just move the topics in the subforum to the forum it's under. That usually works and it makes the forum look less cluttered.

 

[Shortie]

If I have a subforum with very little activity I will move all threads from the subforum into another forum where they would suit and leave them there until I feel we are ready for a subforum. Usually I wait to create subforums to see if we get a lot of discussions on one topic that would warrant a subforum before creating one.