A suggestion to stop people from repsonding to threads that are years old without realizing it.

safeinthecar · May 3, 2008

On the forum thread lists it says the name of the poster that started the thread, if the date the thread was started was also listed it might help cut down on the unusually high number of old threads pooping up lately.

keri1292 · May 3, 2008

Yeah, they've been pooping up a lot lately! :ROTFLMAO:

joolsplus3 · May 3, 2008

An unusually good Freudian slip

:thumbsup: to the suggestion, though.

SafeDad · May 3, 2008

With any luck the new version of the forum software will allow me to lock down threads over x days old...

Simplysomething · May 3, 2008

The first post in the thread has the date the post was created...If people looked---they'd see that they were looking at two and three year old threads.

Mae · May 4, 2008

CPSDarren said:
With any luck the new version of the forum software will allow me to lock down threads over x days old...

I'm going to be the oddball and say I don't like this idea that much. I do understand what the OP is saying though, and I agree that it's annoying when people try to "help the person out" when the post is XXX months old.

But I also have to say that an old post can be used as reference. I recently added onto a post to sort of "help out" with what I was refering to. (http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=23643&highlight=Pontiac+Grand)

I guess either way there's a pro and a con.

SafeDad · May 4, 2008

megnjay said:
I'm going to be the oddball and say I don't like this idea that much. I do understand what the OP is saying though, and I agree that it's annoying when people try to "help the person out" when the post is XXX months old.

True, ideally it would be nice if threads with no new posts in, say, the last year could be locked out by usergroup. That way, unregistered guests and new members could not re-surface an old thread, but members could still do so. We can always dream. Didn't have a chance to install that update yet. Maybe later tonight or some night this week...

keri1292 · May 4, 2008

megnjay said:
But I also have to say that an old post can be used as reference. I recently added onto a post to sort of "help out" with what I was refering to. (http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=23643&highlight=Pontiac+Grand)

I guess either way there's a pro and a con.

When a thread is locked, it can still be used for reference, just not replied to.

A suggestion to stop people from repsonding to threads that are years old without realizing it.

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