Preventing thread reviving

You know we just got back to discussing this topic amongst the moderators as well. In the old site, threads a certain age became "Archived" in that they were locked against further participation and editing. That was a custom feature of a custom forum. When we came over to IPS there was no ready replacement, so we decided to see if it was still going to be a problem before bothering to figure out how to implement it in the new software. Personally, I was hoping that for some reason or another this wouldn't be so bad anymore, but I guess it's one of those things where yea, we had good reason to do it the first time and that reason hasn't seemed to have gone away...

I guess it's not a huge problem or anything, it just seems confusing sometimes.

Totally. Even I've gotten tricked into participating in a necro'd thread a time or two

Everything in software industry works in cycles.

Think of it this way, in 2 years, people won't need to type the answers, since their replies from 10 years ago will be relevant again. Isn't future great?

You know we just got back to discussing this topic amongst the moderators as well. In the old site, threads a certain age became "Archived" in that they were locked against further participation and editing. That was a custom feature of a custom forum. When we came over to IPS there was no ready replacement, so we decided to see if it was still going to be a problem before bothering to figure out how to implement it in the new software. Personally, I was hoping that for some reason or another this wouldn't be so bad anymore, but I guess it's one of those things where yea, we had good reason to do it the first time and that reason hasn't seemed to have gone away...

I think it's a bigger problem for GD.net because you pop up in tons of google searches. I've almost posted in 3 year old thread i've run into on google.\

I'm surprised IPB doesn't have that feature. You should ask for it as a feature request as it seems like something a lot of IPB forums could use.

Good news everyone! Invision has just announced their archive ability for the new 3.3 release. It's a few months down the road but it's coming!

Thread Title: Preventing Thread Revival

Totally. Even I've gotten tricked into participating in a necro'd thread a time or two

Good news everyone! Invision has just announced their archive ability for the new 3.3 release. It's a few months down the road but it's coming!

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*Looks forward to further irony in a few months time.*

That was not even close to an example of thread necro'ing

That was not even close to an example of thread necro'ing

I think I should bookmark this thread and make a note to post again in 2015.