About old topics

Marvak · #1 06-08-2007, 04:38 AM

This may or may not have been talked about before, but I know other forums that (automatically or not, I'm not sure) lock any topics that hadn't been posted in for 1 year or so.
So why not for OWF? It'd prevent noobs from posting in 4-year-old topics and annoying everyone. And yes, I'll admit to making such a mistake when I was just joined XD.
It's just a suggestion. *shrugs* What you you guys think?

***Nate*** · #2 06-08-2007, 05:19 AM

It happens so rarely that I don't think it's really an issue. We now have a warning above the reply box on old threads, which has stopped some zombification as well.

Also, sometimes reviving an old thread is justified. A recent example is the Glitches thread in GD; we really don't need a hundred versions of that floating around.

Marvak · #3 06-09-2007, 02:50 AM

*nods* fair enough.

Zombification lol

OddjobAbe · #4 06-10-2007, 07:17 AM

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zombification

I don't know what it is, but I've got a yearning to play Dead Rising now.

***Nate*** · #5 06-10-2007, 04:19 PM

A thread was dead. Now it has been brought back to life, but it's lurching and slow rather than properly active.

Bullet Magnet · #6 06-10-2007, 06:12 PM

They tend to eat noobs' brains and cause significant pain to those of the mods who must deal with them.

Flamefox · #7 06-18-2007, 09:39 PM

Odd that would hurt. and would piss you off. Can see why some fellas get pretty angry when that happens.