New Forum Feature - Lock threads after one year of inactivity.

[Hondasxs]

New forum feature.
Threads will lock after one year of no activity.
Start a new thread, or a moderator can make a post, which re-activates the thread.

Do you think 1 year is a good window?

I will make adjustments to build threads if need be.
Thanks.

 

[NTCPrezJB]

Sounds good to me.

 

[Scoop]

Good and bad, I'd say.

It will certainly reduce the number of "Dang, you sure dragged this one out of the dust bin" posts, but that will greatly reduce @Remington's overall post count ... It could also result in people asking the same questions that may likely have been answered in the original post. Then again, maybe it will give @Remington a new outlet, asking people to "use the SEARCH" to find the old thread ... 😄

Question: Will this affect people's build threads? I believe I have seen folks update their own build threads more than a year after their own last post there.

One year of inactivity sounds like a decent number.

 

[CID]

It happens so rarely that it's almost irrelevant IMO. Even though old, I've learned from resurrected threads before someone brought up their antiquity. Old threads help us 'newbs' learn a little site history.

One of the best mods that have been made was to allow editing old posts 'forever' so we can keep that post up to date. I frequently update old posts in the New Talon Owners thread to keep up with new information. When I do that, I'll add a post saying that there's new info in post #xx, then after a week or two, I'll delete that info post. It keeps the thread from getting full of useless update posts.

One man's opinion, one vote -

 

[P1K5Dave]

Personally, I like that an old thread can be brought up again. It allows a thought or an issue to be revisited.

Certainly in the case of an instructional thread, we want to be able to go in and let readers know when there was a part change or something (perhaps the edit window is still open, though...) but still, for a guy to be able to ask for clarification on something is valuable.

 

[TripleB]

New forum feature.
Threads will lock after one year of no activity.
Start a new thread, or a moderator can make a post, which re-activates the thread.

Do you think 1 year is a good window?

I will make adjustments to build threads if need be.
Thanks.



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Sounds like Communism to me.

 

[Hondasxs]

So... no?
maybe change it to just a notification, then?

 

[DRZRon1]

New forum feature.
Threads will lock after one year of no activity.
Start a new thread, or a moderator can make a post, which re-activates the thread.

Do you think 1 year is a good window?

I will make adjustments to build threads if need be.
Thanks.



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locked but still searchable ? check?

 

[Hondasxs]

locked but still searchable ? check?

yes.
Just cant reply.

 

[DRZRon1]

yes.
Just cant reply.

outstanding!!!!!

 

[CID]

Is there a site reason to lock an old thread or are you just trying to shut @Remington up?

 

[Hondasxs]

Is there a site reason to lock an old thread or are you just trying to shut @Remington up?

Nope, not really.
I thought I had seen a few ppl complaining of old threads popping back up.

If you don't want it.. then we won't have it.
I can change it to just a "old thread notice" vs locking.

 

[Todd627]

Is there a site reason to lock an old thread or are you just trying to shut @Remington up?

 

[Tom_C]

I'm not a fan of closing threads. On forums I have added information about the topic so that it gets archived in one place. If I do it, I always say 'sorry for late reply, but the answer is XYZ.' I know there is the option to contact a moderator, but if that's the option, I'll probably just skip it.

 

[NewHere2]

Notification of “Old Thread” sounds workable.

 

[Remington]

Is there a site reason to lock an old thread or are you just trying to shut @Remington up?

It will certainly reduce the number of "Dang, you sure dragged this one out of the dust bin" posts, but that will greatly reduce @Remington's overall post count ... It could also result in people asking the same questions that may likely have been answered in the original post. Then again, maybe it will give @Remington a new outlet, asking people to "use the SEARCH" to find the old thread ... 😄

Im off a few days taking care personal family matters, come back and shots fired! 🤣😂

Now, you feel the way ya’ll feel. But 99% of the time if you actually read what I respond to and look into it, Its a majority of the time from a newbie. They dont know how (that is fine BTW) to look up/at the OP or the post date or whoever they are responding to (half the time we dont know who they are responding to either🤣)
When they where LAST ON so they probably wont get an answer from them. Every once in a great while someone else has that answer at which is a good thing. What I tell them is to hopefully help them in the future and its not too demean them like im sure butthurt individuals may think Im doing. (Sorry i have no filter🤣) I do like to throw some forum banter in there as well. If im over the line, Im sure A moderator, its happened before but not often will tell me to cool my jets.
But If it makes ya’ll happy I can just let you explain it to these folks.l

As for locking it up after a year? Id say yes if the OP hasn't been on the forum since then.
If they have, stretch it out another 6 months. But that might be too much to monitor. In the end its not my decision anyway.

 

[Remington]

Personally, I like that an old thread can be brought up again. It allows a thought or an issue to be revisited.

Says from the guy who never likes anyones post! 😂😂 just Fucin with you Dave!
But its true.

 

[DG Rider]

Notification that it's an older thread sounds good. I don't like the ideal it being automatically locked, though.

And who complained because an old thread was brought up? Have a bran muffin and relax...

 

[Scoop]

Im off a few days taking care personal family matters, come back and shots fired! 🤣😂

Did you expect anything less?

If im over the line, Im sure A moderator, its happened before but not often will tell me to cool my jets.
But If it makes ya’ll happy I can just let you explain it to these folks.l

I was just rattling your chain! Absolutely NOTHING negative was meant or implied. Personally, I see nothing wrong with what you do with those situations and posts. In fact, I think they are funny as hell!

As for locking it up after a year? Id say yes if the OP hasn't been on the forum since then.
If they have, stretch it out another 6 months. But that might be too much to monitor. In the end its not my decision anyway.

It's likely just a vBulletin add-on that will look at the most recent post in each thread and lock it if the post date is greater than the period the admin configured it for. I doubt it will support multiple conditions, such as (LAST_POST >= 365 days AND OP_LAST_LOGIN >= 6 months).

 

[CID]

Did you expect anything less?

I was just rattling your chain! Absolutely NOTHING negative was meant or implied. Personally, I see nothing wrong with what you do with those situations and posts. In fact, I think they are funny as hell!

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