Originally posted by RussGood way to keep the forums fresher
To prevent the bumping of old threads, threads will now close in public forums after 60 days of inactivity. (No new posts)
You can still link to old threads if you want to refer to them. [ threadid ] thread id [ /threadid ]. (Remove the spaces)
but could this introduce the new problem of duplicate threads? I.e. a thread has gone over the 60 day thing so a new identical thread is created?
Originally posted by SilverstrikerThat's not really why this is being put into place, in my humble opinion.
Good way to keep the forums fresher
but could this introduce the new problem of duplicate threads? I.e. a thread has gone over the 60 day thing so a new identical thread is created?
What happened every now and then is that some joker decides to bump an old thread which caused confusion as some forum posters don't look at the posting dates and respond to a thread as though it were current. This is particularly effective if the thread was controversial.
Basically, this is just to keep things moving forward, and to stop the morons who are looking for threads from 2001 and trying to show "how things have changed".
It'll do nothing to stop the current crop of glory whores from bumping their own threads ad infinitum.
Originally posted by RussThis still leaves 13 pages of threads available for "legitimate" bumping!!
To prevent the bumping of old threads, threads will now close in public forums after 60 days of inactivity. (No new posts)
You can still link to old threads if you want to refer to them. [ threadid ] thread id [ /threadid ]. (Remove the spaces)
With 30 threads per page that means 390 threads available for bumping.
Still too many. 3 weeks would be more than long enough to consider a thread "dead".
