[Person Man]

Lately I have been seeing people drag up some REALLY OLD threads, like two year old ones, and post their questions and/or solutions in them. Then you have people replying to the two year old posts to try and correct someone who may have left the forums a year earlier and will probably NEVER see the new content.

This is happening more and more often. It gets quite confusing to see something like that happen.

So, I propose one of two things, depending on what the bulletin board software is capable of.

A) Set something in the software that warns the poster they are about to post in a thread that's more than six months old, and ask if they really want to post in it. Of course, the six months is a guideline and could be changed to something else you might find more reasonable.

B) If that's not possible, then change the search guideline itself to tell people to look at the date of the thread before posting in it, and if it's more than six months old, they might want to start a new thread.

It's really annoying to see a thread come up where the someone has taken a thread from 2001 about some problem in 10.1, and added a "me too" post about something in 10.3, especially when the problems aren't really related to each other.

[skalie]

.... or maybe give posts over a few months old a different font, or background colour, or something to indicate their antiquity.

[im_noahselby]

Originally posted by Person Man:
Lately I have been seeing people drag up some REALLY OLD threads, like two year old ones, and post their questions and/or solutions in them. Then you have people replying to the two year old posts to try and correct someone who may have left the forums a year earlier and will probably NEVER see the new content.

This is happening more and more often. It gets quite confusing to see something like that happen.

So, I propose one of two things, depending on what the bulletin board software is capable of.

A) Set something in the software that warns the poster they are about to post in a thread that's more than six months old, and ask if they really want to post in it. Of course, the six months is a guideline and could be changed to something else you might find more reasonable.

B) If that's not possible, then change the search guideline itself to tell people to look at the date of the thread before posting in it, and if it's more than six months old, they might want to start a new thread.

It's really annoying to see a thread come up where the someone has taken a thread from 2001 about some problem in 10.1, and added a "me too" post about something in 10.3, especially when the problems aren't really related to each other.

People should just read the date. Really, is it that confusing people!

It's up to each of us, on our own, to determine if the subject material in the older threads is relevant and recent enough to continue a discussion. Your example makes sense, however, all to often, people out of utter laziness ignore the search function and post topics that already exist in the same shape and form.

Noah