Lasting impact between leaving permanent redirect vs leaving expiring redirect?

[Jah-Hools]

What is the lasting impact between leaving permanent redirect vs leaving expiring redirect?

Does it have an effect on:

Archive?

Google archive?

SEO?

Is it possible to make the expiring option the default? (Its a pain to always select expiring..)

Although I am not sure what the difference is..

I understand the different functions..

I just need an overview on strategy

In every case on my forum - I am moving threads from the WRONG forum to the RIGHT forum - the redirect is only so that people don't think the threads have been deleted.

Thanks in advance..

[Jah-Hools]

Anyone?

[Andy]

Is it possible to make the expiring option the default? (Its a pain to always select expiring..)

Yes changing the default to expire is something I'm sure many admins have done. I have set my to default expire after one hour.

Here is an example how I make the hour field the default.

<option value="h" [COLOR="Red"]selected="selected"[/COLOR]>$vbphrase[hours]</option>

[Jah-Hools]

I don't see 1 hour in that code..? (I am a code dunce!)

Is that the exact code to set the default redirect for 1 hour ?

Or would I need to set something else?

How could I set it for 1 week?

Thanks very much

[Andy]

I suggest you experiment a little and insert the code in red and see how it effects the default choices.

What I do is copy the working template into notepad so that if I mess up I can always revert quickly.