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henrythedog

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I have suggested before locking threads when there has been no activity for a substantial period. That suggestion didn’t fly but - no pun intended - the more than a decade old thread on Iberia cancelling flights to Santiago was resurrected today. It’s not unusual.

Could Ivar consider as part of ongoing development making it much more obvious when a thread has not had a post for more than a year?

I know the date of the last post is shown, but it’s clearly not sufficiently obvious.
 
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I am the one who accidently resurrected the old Iberia thread. I knew there was a thread from a couple of weeks ago about canceling flights due to the virus and I'd recalled Iberia being referred to, but couldn't remember the thread title so did a search. Unfortunately "Iberia" popped up so I quickly clicked on it thinking it was the same one I was remembering...but didn't notice in time that it was tagged as "older threads on this subject"...oops.
 
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I have suggested before locking threads when there has been no activity for a substantial period. That suggestion didn’t fly but - no pun intended - the more than a decade old thread on Iberia cancelling flights to Santiago was resurrected today. It’s not unusual.

Could Ivar consider as part of ongoing development making it much more obvious when a thread has not had a post for more than a year?

I know the date of the last post is shown, but it’s clearly not sufficiently obvious.
I seem to recall that subscribers are deleted if they aren't active for a period of time. I was dropped once.
 
Good idea. I do not believe in locking old threads. A place like this is not just a forum. …
In other forums, "locking" refers to not allowing added comments. That might be appropriate here for some threads, but since not all, the warning idea is better. Or a compromise would be a lock that the user can override by responding to "Locked because ___ months old—are you sure you want to reply?"
 
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I don't think locking threads is the way to go... but I like the little message that inform you that it has been x number of days since the last post this this thread... I just realised that there is a plugin that I can use to make this happen, but I can only install this from the office in Santiago, so I would have to wait until I get back there.

What do we think should be the limit? If the last post in a thread is 180 days (or more ago) then we put up the message?
 
I don't think locking threads is the way to go... but I like the little message that inform you that it has been x number of days since the last post this this thread... I just realised that there is a plugin that I can use to make this happen, but I can only install this from the office in Santiago, so I would have to wait until I get back there.

What do we think should be the limit? If the last post in a thread is 180 days (or more ago) then we put up the message?
I think that 180 days would be a good limit.
 
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