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Ticket #3800
Status: Closed
Opened by Pepijn
Type:
Feature Request
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421
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Opened:
4/26/17 5:04 pm 4/26/17 5:04 pm

[For new forums] Notification when trying to post on old thread.

When a forum post has been inactive for a certain amount of time, show a message near the reply text box with "This topic has been inactive for a long time and probably doesn't have to be replied to anymore" or something similar. Just to stop the necro-posting you see on the forums every so often.

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10/03/2017 6:28 pm
Level 57 : Grandmaster Cyborg
Pepijn
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has closed the ticket.
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06/28/2017 9:04 pm
Level 53 : Grandmaster Architect
LightlySaltedBuilder
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This would be nice, because theres times where ive posted a reply, then realize the thread is 3 years old
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05/03/2017 10:22 am
Level 39 : Artisan Scribe
Jetra
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If there are ever new forums, it'd be better that they just auotlock after a certain amount of time since the last reply (probably a month or something like that). Doubt we're ever getting them, higher priority has always been the site.
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05/03/2017 10:28 am
Level 57 : Grandmaster Cyborg
Pepijn
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Autolocking is almost never the solution. A month is also way too soon.

New forums are going to be a thing btw, might take a while but Paril and Cyp already put a lot of work into it.
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05/03/2017 10:37 am
Level 39 : Artisan Scribe
Jetra
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It's the best possible solution and I threw out a month as a general time frame based off genera thread "lifespans" which is roughly two weeks.

I'll believe new forums when they come, until then it's a dropped project.
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05/03/2017 10:49 am
Level 57 : Grandmaster Cyborg
Pepijn
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Yeah sure....
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04/28/2017 9:28 am
Level 88 : Elite Scapegoat
Paril
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Considering bumping/necro-posting isn't a worry on the new forums it's not high priority, but it's certainly a good idea. I think certain considerations should be taken given the category as well; for instance, in help/support categories it might just prevent them entirely and ask that they post a new thread with more information, since it's likely that's why they didn't get replies.
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04/26/2017 5:07 pm
Level 58 : Grandmaster Grump
Azie
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Honestly, this probably still won't stop people, but I still like this idea. +1
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04/26/2017 5:12 pm
Level 57 : Grandmaster Cyborg
Pepijn
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Bit sad but true, people don't read. It will at least give mods something to point towards to when people try to appeal with "But I didn't notice it was so old!" or "How am I supposed to know what 'too old' is?!".
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04/26/2017 5:04 pm
Level 57 : Grandmaster Cyborg
Pepijn
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modified ticket description.
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