Thread Necromancy Fixes

Can we implement the feature from the old boards that would lock unused threads after a period of time in order to cut down on people bringing up old threads for the sake of controversy? I remember needing to ask a mod permission to unlock older threads if we felt we had something to add to the discussion, or if new material would be pertinent to the thread's contents.

 

Yes, I actually really liked the system, because it cut down on necro, and it helped keep things relevant. How hard would it be to implement with the new board setup?

 

I agree. Autolocking would be desirable.

 

Looks like there is an add-on available but at the moment it is for individual threads rather than a global setting. It might be useful for threads with limited lives, like awards threads or game threads. The developer has plenty of requests to make it global but hasn't yet as far as I can see.

 

Well it's good to know it's still in the cards for the future.

 

I don see what the big deal is. Most of the forums have a thread index to use. Some of the best threads have 100's of pages.

*** Reported for baiting. Edited***

 

And some threads are better left buried before some prig decides to bring it up for the sake of inciting an argument. Those 100+ page threads usually don't die off from inactivity, which isn't what I'm proposing. I'm talking about threads that haven't had a response for something like three months or more, have them locked and just start a new thread, or contact a mod to unlock the thread.