Old posts can no longer be re-scheduled - pretty please, seriously consider some sort of recycle feature :)

I just discovered that I can no longer edit old posts in my community and re-schedule them for a future date. This re-iterates the need for a feature to recycle an old posting.

The way such a feature would work is that after a given amount of time (say 4 months), the leader of a community is allowed to recycle an old community posting. Recycling a post would in effect make it appear as wholly new throughout the Imzy ecosystem, while keeping any comments made. (one could consider tagging the posts as recycled, or not show them at all to people who already had clicked those postings earlier).

This way we would accomplish the following:

  • avoid duplicate postings and keep the communities tidy
  • save time for the moderators
  • easily re-introduce "new" content to new users in their feeds, e-mails, and communities
  • re-ignite debate on old threads and discussions
  • make it appear that more content is being generated than is really the case (this may sound a bit speculative, but this is not a news-website and why would stuff have to be freshly made all the time? It doesn't have to be, it is the discussions and the quality of the information that is important)

As it is now I am digging for great reference materials and articles and spending alot of time while Imzy is still in beta, and when the day comes that it's not in beta I have no way of re-igniting those important subjects apart from copy-pasting and re-creating each post individually.