This may be stupid, but over the last few days I have noticed A LOT of old threads resurfacing.
Basically, a thread from July (for example) pops up because someone has added some meaningless comment to it. Truthly, if someone asked for help in July, I doubt someone adding "i agree" to it now would help.
Anyone, could threads be LOCKED after a certain amount of time has passed?
We have two choices in this forum. We can either rewrite new topics which take up space, or if people search for something and they find an old topic, they can write a comment which will bring it back up on the "recent" list which will let people respond to it.
The biggest problem/issue is that obviously people are going to keep going over topics that have been talked about before many times. So I think a better solution would be to make it known for people to search the forum articles first. The search feature, in my opinion, should be one of the larger parts of this site and should be prominent so that people use it. Most of these answers are already there and would save time for many people, especially newbies.
They get locked because the topic should have not been posted in the first place and the moderator is just making everybody know that,
The topic has changed, and users should start a new topic.
The topic is old and outdated, and a new reply would not be relevant.
Hey,
This may be stupid, but over the last few days I have noticed A LOT of old threads resurfacing.
Basically, a thread from July (for example) pops up because someone has added some meaningless comment to it. Truthly, if someone asked for help in July, I doubt someone adding "i agree" to it now would help.
Anyone, could threads be LOCKED after a certain amount of time has passed?
Not sure if I agree with that completely.
We have two choices in this forum. We can either rewrite new topics which take up space, or if people search for something and they find an old topic, they can write a comment which will bring it back up on the "recent" list which will let people respond to it.
The biggest problem/issue is that obviously people are going to keep going over topics that have been talked about before many times. So I think a better solution would be to make it known for people to search the forum articles first. The search feature, in my opinion, should be one of the larger parts of this site and should be prominent so that people use it. Most of these answers are already there and would save time for many people, especially newbies.
Thanks,
Christian "The solutions Kid" Beebe
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