Should I Have An Archive Board?

I used to but I don't need it at the moment.
It does tidy up the forum & I don't usually block people from posting in it or hide it.
I normally put old shout outs, birthday wishes or calendar events in mine, things that have past.
I hate deleting topics unless I absolutely have to

I actually have three. I have an archive for members to view, and an archive for staff to view. They are both very useful. If I have something I no longer want members to see, but did not think bad enough to send to my recycling bin, I will stick it in my staff archive. I also send old staff threads in it.

It is very useful for old and inactive threads. It will prevent n00bs from bumping up a conversation that ended long long ago. Some you probably don't want to talk about anymore because it did get a little annoying, but not necessarily bad enough to send to the recycling bin. So they can provide very useful. Another thing from this is that it prevents certain boards from getting cluttered and a nuisance to post in.

Archive boards are very much useful. Just as much as a recycling bin can be. They can be used to keep talking in old threads that you don't want in certain boards, like Destiny said. It unclutters boards with all the fun of talking in it still. I believe spam and other locked threads should go to a recycling bin, like I said before.

I have an Archive Board. It is useful to have. Mine is hidden to all guests, if I recall. It is a good threads gone bad. I technically have two but the second is for threads that can not be forgiven and are have a lot of rules broken in it (by 'can not be forgiven' I mean that people should never see them again.) It may not count toward the real count, but it is worth it. My archive board is made so you can post, but is out of the way of current threads we have to avoid loading times (since the forum is pretty big as it is). It is useful.

Why I wont delete them? Obvious, I still want meh thread and post count to stay up. Even though guests cant see them, it is still counted toward the real total.

In one way or another I use archive boards.

On most of my forums I just have one archive board, in the staff only category, which I use to store spam threads or threads which are old and should be out of the way (for example old announcements, birthday threads, Christmas threads). I prefer keeping a board like this because I can never when I'm going to need an old thread. For example if someone posts spam, the thread is kept there for future reference about the bad behaviour.

On one of my forums, aside from this staff archive, I also have an archive members can view, but they can't post in it. The reason is because the forum has a news section, and after a certain amount of time the news threads get moved into the archive so new members wouldn't be tempted to reply to them though they've become old and lost their spark. I thought it would be better if this kind of old threads could still be viewed by members. I was thinking that I might add a notice to allow members which are interested in a certain thread to ask that it's moved back to an active board for discussions, so the archive wouldn't be just a "thread cemetery".

I don't have a use for mine quite yet but when my board gets bigger than it should be used pritty often.

I am co-admin on a forum and we have one that I made just recently. It works wonders for tidying up the categorys. We have gotten many more players telling us that thier happy, we have one so they can reread posts by other players. Its quite handy!