Well whats the point in having 3 trading posts mod's if they can't be bothered doing their jobs? What does the job title consist of? Putting your hand up to become a mod, then not wanting to do anything to help the forum? (no offence to any of the current T/P Mods, its just the attitude of "we really couldn't be bothered..." that gets me. If you couldn't be bothered, then don't be a T/P Mod. Simple.)
If you read the suggestions already put forward, you'd see that no one has asked for you to go through and "check" if every post/item has been sold. Who cares if they're sold or not. If they haven't been bumped in over a year, obviously the item is not going to be still sitting there waiting for a very keen member to go searching through all of the other **** to find it.
Just delete the old crap.
How hard can it be, surely one night of going through it would see most if not all of them removed. Especially if you can select multiple threads at a time, select a whole page, "DELETE".
Start from the last post work back, when you get close to the current date, then have a quick look at some of them and if they're relevent leave those, any of the locked threads, whammo "DELETE."
Hozy has already put his hand up (shamelessly might I add
) and I'm sure there is a few other members that would do it aswell? If it means getting the job done, I'd do it.
But agree'd the current hiding system is lacking in that department, there's not much point deleting/moving them if they still show up. Maybe they need to be put into a section like the "Donating 18+ Only" section, that can't be seen by other users.