Interesting topic....
In general, I'm a big fan of not screwing with the "archive" (the sum collection of posts on MacRumors), and so I'd love to lock away threads after a certain point to preserve them.
Of course, that's not going to happen, and manually locking them isn't going to happen either.
It'd be nice if any thread, after reaching a determinable-per-forum age, would be autolocked with a button to submit a request to unlock it. Nice, that is, if we'd hire half a dozen new mods to handle it.
Which we won't.
The programmer part of me would love a visual indicator of how long a thread had sat before the latest reply... so you could tell, visually, that the latest reply came minutes, hours, days, or years after the previous one. I think that'd be ideal - no locking, no refusal to allow new input, just a clear indicator that this reply is a resurrection and that reply is on a still-hot thread.
I don't mind resurrections in many areas, but, yeah, there are places it's just not cool, but it's very hard to determine those with rules. Buying advice, for example, would seem clear cut, but... there are accessories, for example, that have been on the market for years, and someone updating a thread to say "hey, I've been using this for two years now and it's still working great and you can still buy it" would be fine, IMHO.
So I guess I'd agree that we can't set a limit, but we could allow post reports (well, we allow any post to be reported) to suggest unwise resurrections, which we could the deal with. We do that anyway, but not may resurrected threads are reported. I guess I'm saying it's fine to report them, if the latest posts truly don't fit in with the original thread.
In general, I'm a big fan of not screwing with the "archive" (the sum collection of posts on MacRumors), and so I'd love to lock away threads after a certain point to preserve them.
Of course, that's not going to happen, and manually locking them isn't going to happen either.
It'd be nice if any thread, after reaching a determinable-per-forum age, would be autolocked with a button to submit a request to unlock it. Nice, that is, if we'd hire half a dozen new mods to handle it.
Which we won't.The programmer part of me would love a visual indicator of how long a thread had sat before the latest reply... so you could tell, visually, that the latest reply came minutes, hours, days, or years after the previous one. I think that'd be ideal - no locking, no refusal to allow new input, just a clear indicator that this reply is a resurrection and that reply is on a still-hot thread.
I don't mind resurrections in many areas, but, yeah, there are places it's just not cool, but it's very hard to determine those with rules. Buying advice, for example, would seem clear cut, but... there are accessories, for example, that have been on the market for years, and someone updating a thread to say "hey, I've been using this for two years now and it's still working great and you can still buy it" would be fine, IMHO.
So I guess I'd agree that we can't set a limit, but we could allow post reports (well, we allow any post to be reported) to suggest unwise resurrections, which we could the deal with. We do that anyway, but not may resurrected threads are reported. I guess I'm saying it's fine to report them, if the latest posts truly don't fit in with the original thread.
