About those old threads

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Fribbi · #1 Post by **Fribbi** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:27 pm

It seems to me you all hate those old threads coming up here again on the first page. So why don't you just lock all of those threads who is now 5-10 months old to prevent they will never come up on the first page again? $:\$

#2 Post by **Erpy** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:54 pm

If the topic becomes relevant again and someone has something really new to add, I have no objection to a thread being revived. (but mostly, a thread is revived by someone who's either clueless or simply didn't watch the date of the last post)

Bumping old threads is against general internet etiquette though, so something like this really shouldn't be necessary. I'd rather not take such a radical approach if it's not needed. I personally think a forum filled with locked topics looks ugly and besides, continuously locking topics gets tedious.

Angelus3K · #3 Post by **Angelus3K** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 2:03 pm

Besides it would be better to auto-prune old threads and get them moved to a private forum or something.

Actually on second thought there's not much point in that

Fribbi · #4 Post by **Fribbi** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:07 pm

Ok whatever! $:\$

Klytos · #5 Post by **Klytos** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 3:01 am

Sometimes nothing interesting has been said in a few months, then you have to go back 5 or 10 pages to get an interesting conversation going.

Of course, thats on other forums. There's no problems like that here.

#6 Post by **Erpy** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 9:33 am

Sometimes nothing interesting has been said in a few months, then you have to go back 5 or 10 pages to get an interesting conversation going.

The remedy to that is quite simple. If a forum is "dead" for a little while, don't go flooding it with senseless oneliners, but simply leave it inactive for a while. The former act just kills a forum quicker.