Thread Resurrection

[VorpalCat]

Although it's not a frequent problem (and heck, maybe it's not even a problem per se), every so often a long-dead thread is brought back to life for no real reason. Usually it's a new poster cruising through old threads who evidently doesn't notice the date on the post to which he/she is responding. So how about a pop-up when a poster is adding a comment to a thread whose last post is dated, say, a month or more ago? Something pointing out the age of the thread and asking the ubiquitous 'Are you sure you want to do this?'

It's just a minor annoyance -- feel free to ignore if I'm a minority of one.

[noodle]

hard to justify telling people to "use the search function" to find old threads to answer their question, and then tell them not to ressurect them.

[VorpalCat]

But they wouldn't be told not to resurrect them. They'd just be asked if they're sure they want to. Are most thread resurrections searchers asking a question or (usually new) people idling around and just posting a comment, (evidently) not realizing the age of the thread in question? Seems to me the latter is the cause most of the time.

[catwood1]

Irony strikes!!!!


As I posted in a recent thread, it wouldn't be too hard to make it so if you wanted to resurrect a thread more than say, 3 months old, that you had to post a reason, that would then be reviewed by mods.

I was considering posting that in this forum, but then I saw this thread, and decided to ressurect it.

[VorpalCat]

Irony strikes!!!!

Strike while the irony is hot!