Vent: What is it with people and old threads?

hoyles10

I shall post my view on this in about 18 months

Azari

hoyles10 wrote: »

I shall post my view on this in about 18 months

Make sure you start a new thread to do so or some freelance mod may take you to task.

katerinasol

trumpton wrote: »

I do think that on occasion we experienced users can be a little impatient with newbies. On the otherhand it's annoying to read 3 pages of a thread and then realise it was in 2007 that the washing machine broke and Currys wouldn't come out.

I don't think that's so bad. For a start, it doesn't take long to glance at the date of posting. And for example, if in 2007 Currys wouldn't come out but made a pledge to improve customer service, if someone posts now saying they're STILL not coming out, it just gives people a realistic view of whether they've improved or not.

fozmcfc

The ones that annoy me, are when someone answers a question directly to the OP from a thread 4 or 5 years old when the OP has 1 post or all their posts are in the same thread.

I think that once a thread hasn't been posted to for over a period of time say 2 years it should be locked automatically. That way it is still there for usefulness, but we don't get things such as the above happening.

james2012_2

There is another one, is my offers a scam, that was resurrected by a newbie a little while ago.

Why don't we start a hunt for 1 wonder newbies who resurrect old threads and are never heard of again?

Azari

james2012 wrote: »

There is another one, is my offers a scam, that was resurrected by a newbie a little while ago.

Why don't we start a hunt for 1 wonder newbies who resurrect old threads and are never heard of again?

To what end?

trumpton

That's a good idea, Foz. If no posts after 2 years the thread gets locked.

DCFC79

Azari wrote: »

Why is it that a small but persistent group of posters insist on whining if an old thread is resurected?

It doesn't hurt anyone. It is unlikely to rip a hole in the space time continuum.

If the thread is still of interest it will hang around for a while and if it isn't it will quickly drop back into obscurity. Just like any other thread!

If TPTB thought it was a problem they could easily lock all threads over a certain age.

Other than people answering the OP in a long dead thread I cannot see what the problem is.

theres the new posters who will ressurect a thread(whether they have anything relevant to say or not) then they dont post

or theres the new posters who will resurrect a thread (with something relevant) but for some reason they didnt start a new thread

james2012_2

To what end?

To pee off the people who complain?

james2012_2

What about complaining about posters who don't know the difference between theres, should be there's, new when it should be knew etc.

Oh! sorry, been done.