Hello Fresh - duped into signing up for 20 meals for a family of 5

saajan_12

Alderbank said:

It's not against the rules though and in this case it generated several posts from different points of view which I found interesting and useful.

Well would be hard to define rules around this that are sufficiently generic.. an OP could have updates and some threads are intended as long running chains with a theme but not all answering a single OP. 

However its still poor form on threads that are all about one OP's situation, as it can be hard to notice the original date for subsequent posters, who spend time giving advice on something that is unlikley to be useful or get much response from the OP. 

Ergates

On the Guardian news website, articles that are over a certain age  (lets say... 6 months), get a big yellow banner at the top, so that if you follow a link to one, you know it might be out of date.

Something similar on the forum would be very useful.  Doesn't have to stop anyting or block anything - just put an obvious flag onto posts over a certain age.

born_again

Forum I moderate on has a message that comes up when someone tries to post on a old thread. That this is a old thread.
Sadly makes no difference. People still post on, in some cases 5 year old threads asking if the OP got a result. Of course just as here. A vast majority of posts never get a outcome from the original poster.