[revolver]

I'm wondering what the best way to deal with old posts in the queue that have been there the past the number of days to publish setting.

If these old posts are deleted then it will throw off users' # of votes, comments, unpublished story stats etc.

If they are set to discard then they have the same status as 'false-start' posts (when a user begins to submit a story but in the end doesn't actually submit).

If they are left in the queue then the unpublished news page becomes filled with irrelevant stories that the community has deemed uninteresting.

So I added some code in libs/search.php that does not show stories on the shakeit page that are older than 'number of days to publish' setting.

This all seemed great but then i realized that these stories will still be indexed by search engines and will still show up in the local search results ... which doesn't make sense if the community has deemed them uninteresting.

So I am at a loss.
What is the best way to deal with old stories in the queue?
Any ideas?

Would there be any benefit in introducing 'stale' as a status value for links (in addition to published, discard, abuse etc.)?

[chuckroast]

revolver

Personally I would rather have an uninteresting story come up in the search index than nothing at all.. If a person is searching for something specific and your uninteresting page is the result, obviously someone is interested.