Speeding up The Answerbank

[tom&jerry]

May I suggest that the Editor deletes maybe 15,000 of the old answers in the crossword section. This may help to speed up the process of searching for answers/clues. I am fairly sure that there is no-one has to go back this far in time for answers to relevant/current clues.

[dot.hawkes]

that is certainly a positive idea tom, (or jerry)

[kempie]

There's also about 21,000 superfluous threads in ChatterBank.

[dot.hawkes]

the ed can delete all 1009 of my questions i'm not bothered, wouldn;t like him to zap my answers on genealogy, but i;ve 20.000 or so that could go lol

[trt]

Are they by any chance posted by a person called Leg kempie?
: - )

[swedeheart]

I generally protest when someone starts talking about deleting questions and answers just because they're old - this is, after all, an answer bank - but removing old crossword questions seems like a very good idea. How say you, Q&P users, would there be any downside to that? Would be marvellous if it could actually speed things up a bit around here!

[yogasun]

I think that's an excellent idea as far as Q & P is concerned.

[Mctavish]

Hopefully it would make a difference if some of the Q&P questions and answers were deleted and speed thing up. I have found the site very slow the last couple of days and at times wasn't even able to post a question or give an answer. Surely by the end of the week most of the current crosswords have been answered and then they are of no further use - perhaps take it to 2 weeks.
I can't see any downside to that happening.

[Robinia]

It sounds like a sensible idea in theory, (as does kempie's suggestion re cb :o)), but this is a very big site, would it really make that much difference to the annoying speed problems?

[LoftyLottie]

A good suggestion (as is Kempie's!!)

[tom&jerry]

Thank you for all the replies and positive comments, let's hope that something is now done by the Editor to speed things up.
In reply to Swedeheart:- Yes, it is an answerBANK, but only when the search facilities work!
Thank you again.