"You are replying to an old thread" - suggestion

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How about a little box warning you that you are replying to a thread over x-months old on the the screen you type your reply.

Something to point they should consider whether answers are time specific or not - for instance helping someone who's asking about what 50cc to get because they're 16 when they're now 24 is probably not going to be that useful.

While a question left answered about a wiring diagram may still be useful, say.

[Kickstart]

Hi

Might help, but most of the time it seems to be threads resurrected by spammers.

All the best

Keith
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[Berk]

True, but then you get 6 people who don't realise that a spammer resurrected a 3 year old thread and answer a defunct question. A check box would bring that to their attention.

Another forum I'm on has the little check box for really old threads, just asking if you really want to post in a thread that is xxx days old. It kind of works, but it's a tiny forum anyway so doesn't make a huge difference.

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Hi

Yep, but once someone has posted it doesn't really seem to be an old thread anymore. And if it refers the the threads early posts then it would be triggered so often by long running threads (eg, Chr15 posting on his turbo Bandit project) that people wouldn't take any notice of it.

All the best

Keith
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Kickstart]

Hi

Maybe but it starts getting a bit random. Even at that level plenty of threads would trigger it (and I suspect might be a bit difficult to code efficiently)

All the best

Keith
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[J.M.]

I think it's a good idea. I've found myself commenting in threads resurrected by people just registering to reply, to see the thread was originally created a year ago or something!

What I would probably do is set an inactivity counter:
once it reaches X amount of days the thread either gets locked (and suggests someone to make a new one rather than replying)
or
present the poster with a confirmation page saying something like "the thread you're about to comment in has been inactive for a long time (x days). If you're sure your comment is still relevant then you may continue, if not please cancel your message."
After this post has been accepted the counter resets back to 0.

I'm not sure how easy that would be to implement though, I've not had experience with modifying forum packages
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A nightly job could add a flag to all posts over 3 months old, say.
The flag is removed once a post receives either 10 replies in under 24 hours or or say 3 in a 3 day period.

The warning is displayed if the post has the flag set.

[Korn]

Added some warnings to threads that are either very old or have been resurrected

For example:
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=782#782
https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=46886#46886
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Ta .

Not sure it will stop people just replying to the first post, but at least they'll probably realise their foolishness fairly quickly!

[Berk]

I'm liking the warnings.

[Serendipity]

Very good feature. Just saw it in the squeaky Sidi boot thread.

Nice one.
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[pinkyfloyd]

Good thinking batman. The trouble is, with lots of threads, People start the "oh not this shit again" threads and get treated accordingly and told to run a search next time when they start a new thread.

Next time a search is run and they get the "holy thread resurection" thread going.

Cant win.

Sometimes a thread 2 years old is resurrected because people take the initiative and run a search. Many people on here cant stand a dredging up of the old thread even though the member doing the dredging was not a member at the time and the content of the thread is relevent to them. If they read Korns note about starting a new thread and then do just that they get told to run a search.
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[GhostRider]

I like the warnings, good job.

GhostRider
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[Raffles]

I've just resurrected an old thread in the Current Affairs section. Whilst the old thread warnings are being displayed immediately above my new post, you have to read all of the old stuff before you are made aware that it's old.
Is it not possible to alert people with some kind of symbol (maybe the cobwebs) included in the thread title?
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[Clanger]

Agree with Pinky, about the repost thing, some posts are worth resurrecting especially when they are relevant to the here and now!
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