Suggestion: dead is dead please

MJ. Smith

We've had new posts on old posts more frequently recently ... this creates 3 problems for me:

1. I don't recognize that it's an old thread and give inappropriate answers OR
2. I waste my time rereading the beginning of the thread before I think to check the date OR
3. I ignore the thread as does most everyone else and a legitimate question isn't answered.

Does the forum software permit either of two possible solutions:

1. allow the original poster to say I've got my answer and close the thread OR
2. automatically kill threads that have been inactive for 50 days

steve clark

MJ. Smith said:

allow the original poster to say I've got my answer and close the thread OR
automatically kill threads that have been inactive for 50 days

or a possible #3

3. In posts which have had no replies within 50 or 60 days, lock them so that no new replies are permitted. This would allow others to view the posts to glean info and also search them using google.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/182636#Comment_182636

steve clark said:

3. In posts which have had no replies within 50 or 60 days, lock them so that no new replies are permitted. This would allow others to view the posts to glean info and also search them using google.

My language was imprecise - you and I were thinking of the same capability.

steve clark

<deleted duplicate post> wow that duplicate came after a very long time, some lag!

Rosie Perera

MJ. Smith said:

We've had new posts on old posts more frequently recently ... this creates 3 problems for me:

1. I don't recognize that it's an old thread and give inappropriate answers OR
2. I waste my time rereading the beginning of the thread before I think to check the date OR
3. I ignore the thread as does most everyone else and a legitimate question isn't answered.

Dopes the forum software permit either of two possible solutions:

1. allow the original poster to say I've got my answer and close the thread OR
2. automatically kill threads that have been inactive for 50 days

+1 [Y]

I think you've suggested this before and it went unheeded. Perhaps it was on some old thread that hasn't had any posts for way more than 50 days now and hasn't been satisfactorily answered/closed.

Matthew C Jones

[Y] I was rather embarrassed recently to answer a post from one year ago.

tom

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/182636#Comment_182636

steve clark said:

MJ. Smith said:

allow the original poster to say I've got my answer and close the thread OR
automatically kill threads that have been inactive for 50 days

or a possible #3

3. In posts which have had no replies within 50 or 60 days, lock them so that no new replies are permitted. This would allow others to view the posts to glean info and also search them using google.

[Y]

TCBlack

I'll agree that after a set period (50 days seems good) of no activity, threads should be automatically locked.  

PLUS: I'd love to have an "answered" feature where the OP could click a link on a post that would declare here's the answer!.  That should lock the thread after a shorter period of inactivity, say a week.  

And here's the script to do it:Re: Script to lock old posts - Community Server 2008 - Developer Space - Telligent

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/182793#Comment_182793

Thomas Black said:

I'll agree that after a set period (50 days seems good) of no activity, threads should be automatically locked.  

PLUS: I'd love to have an "answered" feature where the OP could click a link on a post that would declare here's the answer!.  That should lock the thread after a shorter period of inactivity, say a week.  

And here's the script to do it:Re: Script to lock old posts - Community Server 2008 - Developer Space - Telligent

Isn't that script just for the Telligent platform? I'm not sure what platform this forum is built on.

I think we ought to bring this discussion to the attention of the Logos devs. I can't remember which one is responsible for forum software. Is it David Ladiges?

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/182929#Comment_182929

Rosie Perera said:

Isn't that script just for the Telligent platform? I'm not sure what platform this forum is built on.

Yup.  IThe L4ums are built on Telligent Community server 2008.5 SP2.  

Rosie Perera said:

I think we ought to bring this discussion to the attention of the Logos devs. I can't remember which one is responsible for forum software. Is it David Ladiges?

I do believe it's Dave L.  Yes.

Lynden O. Williams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/183475#Comment_183475

[Y]