What's wrong with necroposting?

[Glorfindel]

Oh, yeah, that's right. I haven't used the full site much

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

We have something like this in place. When you try to reply to an old thread (90 days or older I believe), you will see a reminder saying:

"Old Thread Warning

This thread is quite old and may contain outdated information. We recommend that you begin a new discussion if you like to talk about a similar topic. Of course, you may also proceed and reply here."

The problem is, that notice is shown in a way that makes it quite easy to ignore.

Interestingly, one of the similar threads to this thread actually is similar for once: Necroposting and other parascriptias

It has another decent suggestion -- that the same newbie locks which prevent editing posts, I believe (I may be wrong as it has been a while since I was on that level ) should lock people from responding to posts flagged as old.

[Alexander Turcic]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

The problem is, that notice is shown in a way that makes it quite easy to ignore.

That's true. I guess it depends. If a user has a good reason to reply to an old thread, then I think he should be able to do so (in other words, I am not convinced locking old threads in general would be the best solution). On the other hand, if a user repeatedly replies to old threads (either because he doesn't understand the concept of old versus new threads or because he does it just for fun), then it would be a good idea to message this person directly and ask him politely to consider starting new threads instead.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

That's true. I guess it depends. If a user has a good reason to reply to an old thread, then I think he should be able to do so (in other words, I am not convinced locking old threads in general would be the best solution). On the other hand, if a user repeatedly replies to old threads (either because he doesn't understand the concept of old versus new threads or because he does it just for fun), then it would be a good idea to message this person directly and ask him politely to consider starting new threads instead.

Well, as far as that warning goes, I think it might work better if it was a popup clickthrough, because I suspect there are people who fail to notice it, strange as that may sound.

[PeterT]

I believe that if one is using a tool like Tapatalk that there is no necropost warning.

[Alexander Turcic]

Originally Posted by PeterT

I believe that if one is using a tool like Tapatalk that there is no necropost warning.

Didn't even think of Tapatalk. Tapatalk is a headache. Because it is not open source, there is little room for customization. The Tapatalk code is not well written either; we had to make some adjustments that it wouldn't affect the overall performance of the board.

[Alexander Turcic]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Well, as far as that warning goes, I think it might work better if it was a popup clickthrough, because I suspect there are people who fail to notice it, strange as that may sound.

Strange thing is, I thought we had it implemented as a clickthrough warning. I must be getting old.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

Strange thing is, I thought we had it implemented as a clickthrough warning. I must be getting old.

Perhaps I am misremembering, because I don't really find myself trying it out much... I do know that the warning is shown in a box in between the Post Reply button and the message box.

It is possible it shows up both ways, and I have simply forgotten.


Although Tapatalk sounds fun too.

[Glorfindel]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

Didn't even think of Tapatalk. Tapatalk is a headache. Because it is not open source, there is little room for customization. The Tapatalk code is not well written either; we had to make some adjustments that it wouldn't affect the overall performance of the board.

It doesn't show on the mobile site either, though I am sure there are far less users of it