# practice post--go away

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**Created:** [May 31, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post-go-away/306158 "2005-05-31T01:35:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post-go-away/306158/1 "2005-05-31T01:35:01Z")

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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?searchid=908402](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?searchid=908402)

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**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post-go-away/306158/2 "2005-05-31T01:40:21Z")

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will you get mad at us if we hang around?

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**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post-go-away/306158/3 "2005-05-31T01:49:56Z")

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mmmm…beer…

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post-go-away/306158/4 "2005-05-31T01:51:32Z")

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What I want to know is whether this link will decompose overnight. It did before when I posted it to CoCC in the “33” thread.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post-go-away/306158/5 "2005-05-31T02:07:29Z")

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My patent links are still working after ~21 months:  
[Does this patent link decay ?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=207662)

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**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post-go-away/306158/6 "2005-05-31T02:36:48Z")

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> [@samclem](#):
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> What I want to know is whether this link will decompose overnight…

Or will it age gracefully, like a fine camembert?

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/practice-post-go-away/306158/7 "2005-05-31T02:48:26Z")

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Wow! I don’t think I ever closed my own thread.

The answer is that links to “searches” go away after a period of time, perhaps hours. This happened in the vBulletin upgrade. ☹

There is a sticky in ATMB by AHunter3 about just this sort of thing. :smack: