Published on 12, July, 2020
Ppl keep reopening ancient threads, one was 10 years old.
The info in those threads must be well out of date.
Is there a way to let them be read but not added too?
If I'm the only one bothered I'll go find somewhere less confusing to hang out. I'm quite aware it might just be me that's struggling with this
Max has left the platform (them/they) said:I'm glad someone finds old info useful.
Well that not quite what I said.
Information being out of date isn't always applicable or the most important aspect of a discussion.
Some discussions are looking specifically for information that can become out of date eg. medical but lots aren't.
I'm glad someone finds old info useful. I don't want to read ancient advice when the world moves so quickly. I'm also now appalled that I've probably wasted energy replying to bots. If I reply to something it's with all my good will and desire to help someone.
I also dislike fast moving forums so maybe I need a rethink of how I use the Internet
Sporadic Sparkly said:Perhaps the mods could consider doing the same with discussions that were created more than 12 months ago.
That would mean locking threads like 'Creative Space' that was designed to be a permanent place for our creativity
It's actually 10 months old so we would have only have 2 more months of it
Bots reactivate discussions here? So sometimes I'm responding to no-one ? Just a bot? This is not something I had even considered.
I don't see the necessity.
I created a thread called 'library of threads' as I treat the forum as a library.
Some of those threads are over 12 months old and I love to read input still and am very pleased if one is resurrected.
I don't particularly like the concept of fast moving, ever changing social media where what is in the past is forgotten/discarded.
I am very happy to respond to general interest threads more than a year old.
If a bot brings up a thread several years old I read it.
Quite often, it's the spam bots that resurrect old discussions. It's sad when members then comment (perhaps offering advice), not realising that the discussion isn't recent, and was created by a member that is no longer active on the forums.
I'm aware that when discussions get heated, the mods will sometimes lock them. They are still available to be read, just that nobody can post comments. Perhaps the mods could consider doing the same with discussions that were created more than 12 months ago.
It isn't only you who's bothered by this. A few times I've written a reply and only then realised that the OP wrote it many years before. I think 5+ years posts should be locked as the OP is highly unlikely to return to it.