Auto-lock ancient forum threads

Is it possibly to mass-lock threads older than say, a couple months? There's no reason to bump ones that old. If someone wants to quote them, quote them in a new thread.

Bumping old threads is stupid, people.

This coming from the person who just bumped the attachment thread.

No!

I just bumped an old feature suggestions thread that still holds relavency (its about attachments, their abilities (moving, rotating, etc) havent changed since... I remember).

I dont understand why this would be something needed? Sure, people can bump old threads, but heck, is it really that hard to look at the date a thread is posted when reading it?

Yes, it is. Do you check the date of first post for every thread you read, especially if it's gone to five or six pages?

What specifically is wrong with bumping an old thread?

Why lock them? Because the number of bumps that actually add something to the discussion (as in Chris' example) are so few and far between. The vast majority of them are just "h4w! I found an old thread!" Bra-vo.

If you want to revisit an old issue, why not just include a link to it, putting it in context?

"This thread Foo Avatar started two years ago talks about $issue. I think this is still something we should have."

Of course, I hate flat thread structures completely... but that's another story.

What about threads where it's useful, like the Supergreen colors.ini? I don't see why that warrants a whole new thread.

The main reason I bumped my old attachment thread is because it had already attained 7 replys. It might have been a good idea, just that it might have been posted at a time when people were concentrating on a different subject. I believe the bumping is espicially useful in measuring demand for a particular topic, since a reader can simply look for the number of replys to a thread discussing topic x, instead of searching for all refrences for topic x.

==Chris

And with auto-lock enabled, the vast majority of them will *still* be "h4w! I found an old thread!" Just that it will be in a totally new thread.

Do we really want new thread spam? Id rather a person post a reply to an old forum post, rather then post a new thread to post a reply to the old forum post.

And yes, often, I do read the post dates of threads I read, espicially when something appears out of context (like, "OMG! The whole grid went down!" Which was common in beta, but doesnt happen as often nowadays.)

==Chris

No. Bad idea.

I'd like a built in warning system when you're about to post to something older than six months, but I'm going to be bumping all my feature requests once they get Havok2 in.

Why remove an actual useful tool?

I have to say, having done it myself (with humor in mind) some people do NOT find the humor in it. I'd bump the thread to show you but, well, nevermind.

While there may be some situations where bumping an old thread is usefull I find that most instances are just a waste of time (mine). I check for new posts and when there are 3 pages worth I rarely get to page two before I feel I've spent enough time on it.

Generally the reason to bump a thread is that someone, in another thread, has brought up a related topic. Simply posting a link to the older thread, to me, is the more usefull approach, and you avoid activating two new sets of posts on the same topic (assuming that people pay attention and post to the newer thread rather than the older one.)

I think locking the older ones is a fine idea. I'd even go for deleting some of the old stuff, but that would require some subjective editing about what is worth keeping and what is not. We probably don't want to go there yet.

WTF??? Nooooooo!!

The forums are a superb place to dig around in the history of SL. Espicially in the Scripting forums, its like an archiological dig and I always learn something new.

To blatently discard something as valuable as the history of SL on these forums is totally idiotic.

==Chris

w00t! 1.5k posts!

Does it really take that much effort to read a date? Jeez...

Plus, threads over 5-6 pages are very rare. You dont need to read the date of each reply to get a feel for the time period of its creation.