[imitchellg5]

This has been happening a ton, especially in the MacBook/iBook thread. Most of the time it's a noob asking a question that the answer of which can be found in a thread on the first page. It's a bit annoying. Can we lock threads that are a certain age so that they can't bump all these old useless threads?

[peeb]

Can't we just point them to the right thread? It's not always inappropriate to revive an oldish thread.

[imitchellg5]

Originally Posted by peeb 

Can't we just point them to the right thread? It's not always inappropriate to revive an oldish thread.

But what about when they have a question (one recently was Santa Rosa in the MacBook) and resurrect an old thread to ask about it when on the first page of the MacBook forum there is a huge discussion about it. I think that they should be pointed to the right thread, but it's just a bit annoying how they revive old ones instead of going to one where a discussion is still brewing.

[peeb]

Yeah, it's kind of annoying. There are some old threads that make sense to revive though.

[seanc]

I brought this topic up last year some time.

There's a thread in the Mac Mods section from 2001

I found a 'fix' on vbulletin.org to stop this from happening, I would hope that the admins would consider implementing it.

ZH - Auto Lock Thread - vBulletin.org Forum

Just set it to lock threads that haven't been replied to for 6 months.

EDIT: The above mod is for VB 3.5, here's one for 3.6.
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