A notification message for abandoned thread

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Quote from: LoyceV on November 21, 2018, 10:37:10 AM

There's already a notification in place for users who reply to those threads:

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Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days.
Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic.

I hope that the administration updates the warning code because it appears if the last comment was written 120 days before trying to write the new reply. "This duration does not include deleted comments."
I have my own thread in the Services section and receive this warning even though I delete my "pumping" continuously.

bitart

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A similar, auto-lock feature was mentioned several times ago, but nothing happened.
If you look at the whole forum these days, you'll see that usually the OP won't come back to his/her topic, because they're opening them just to increase their post count, and their spamming friends are happy to reply to the newly opened topics with oneliner meaningless posts, because they also need the post count for their bounty campaign... And not to mention the bots...

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There's already a notification in place for users who reply to those threads:

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Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days.
Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic.

The ones making useless bumps are usually just spammers or shitposters. Reporting their posts takes care of it.

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Quote from: Gloverwrt on November 21, 2018, 09:39:23 AM

I do not think we should be overly worried about threads where the discussion has died down and no new replies are being made.
As we often have members say it's ideal to use the search button before making a post so as not to make a repetitive topic. So locking such threads would be counterproductive in my opinion, and users would have to make new topics to discuss the same issues.

The real concern are the threads which gets comments regularly with the same replies twisted in different ways.

But what do you think about those threads that clearly have been answered and no need of another answer whatsoever? As you said, the issue is that people keep on replying the same replies twisted in different ways. If the OP just locked the thread right away after he/she got the answer he/she needed, then spam replies wouldn't get a chance to even be made.

Quote from: Gloverwrt on November 21, 2018, 09:39:23 AM

The issue of locking threads is not a straight case, and it's up for debate when a post should be locked.

That's why this is feature servers a truly optional action to do. If the OP doesn't want the thread to be locked, then he/she just need to decline the notification.

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I do not think we should be overly worried about threads where the discussion has died down and no new replies are being made.
As we often have members say it's ideal to use the search button before making a post so as not to make a repetitive topic. So locking such threads would be counterproductive in my opinion, and users would have to make new topics to discuss the same issues.

The real concern are the threads which gets comments regularly with the same replies twisted in different ways.

The issue of locking threads is not a straight case, and it's up for debate when a post should be locked.

Jeremycoin

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I've seen a lot of threads that have been left by the OP get resurrected by certain members that think it's okay to reply to an old abandoned thread.

Therefore I'm suggesting to add this feature of a notification for the thread that we made that hasn't had any more new replies on a certain amount of time (1 month?). The idea is to remind or even suggest the OP to lock the thread if it's not relevant anymore. So whenever our thread is not having any more reply, the system will send us a notification to either lock the thread or leave it be.

Wouldn't that be a helpful new feature?

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