do you get rid of old topics? cuz they're takin up space or getting in the way or... just bugging you, cuz they're old?

or, do you keep them all active, to have a running "history" on your boards?

I try to keep all of my recent topics active, though it usually fails cause my board is going through its annual inactivity period at the moment (only the Admins and Mods are posting, and no new members are joining); it's happened ever since we were on ezboard. Though we do have a rule; you don't bump topics back that are more than two months old, because it makes the board look more inactive than it already is. And it seems to work, too.

Hmm... Well this is difficult to answer since all 2850+ boards (and growing) are different. We have developed a moderator's control panel that gives moderators the option to prune their board. Personaly I keep our administration board to no topics older then 30 days. Generaly I could not see why you would keep topics beyond 90 days. If you do create a read only board to archive old topics to for refrence.