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[Rant] Poor forum setup

+1 my friend. Very Annoying indeed.

Dave

reply to akira6968
»Forum Feature Requests

There should be a way to automatically lock the thread - If over x days old then lock.

Suggest it in the linked forum...
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Brian

"It drops into your stomach like a Abrams's tank.... driven by Rosanne Barr..." A. Bourdain

reply to akira6968
It is a slight annoyance but doesn't happen that often, so.......*shrug*

reply to akira6968
As I do agree, wouldn't it be common sense to look at the topic date & the last reply date and realize "as example" the topic is 2 years old & it is pointless to reply?

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*object*

reply to akira6968
New people are less likely to know what to look at regarding forum posts and the small icons here and there...they are likely to write out a long reply to something important to them only to find out at the end the inability to post. I think some indication of the inability to post in certain topics would be helpful...why have this at the time you post and not earlier to save time and effort?

reply to Johkal
Common sense, literally meaning common knowledge, would be assuming you can reply because it lets you- because it's common practice for old posts to be locked, without an ability to reply even offered.

But hey, I'm no forum admin. Just a griper lol. I dunno how these things work.

reply to Johkal
And heck yeah I'd reply to a 2 year old topic, just to get the garbage outta my head and into....well, somewhere else lol

reply to akira6968
just noticed this got moved to feature requests.... I never said I was talking about THIS forum..... o.O hehe....hehe...

It was moved here because this is where requests such as yours are aired and possibly put into the code.
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Brian

"It drops into your stomach like a Abrams's tank.... driven by Rosanne Barr..." A. Bourdain

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reply to CylonRed
There seems to be a problem there, too. I've seen this a few times lately... A topic posted in Forum A gets moved to Forum B (for whatever reason). It used to be that there was a notice in Forum A that the topic was moved to Forum B. Now, both the notice and the topic show up only in Forum B, which makes no sense at all.

More to the topic, Anonymous posters get notified immediately when a post is too old to reply to. It would seem logical to do the same for members instead of leading them down a path only to cut them off when trying to submit the post (such a tease! ). /disclaimer: I haven't actually seen this myself.
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"Face piles of trials with smiles; it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave."

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reply to NotTheMama

This very thread is--or was--an example. When this topic first showed up here (in this forum), the notice that it had been moved to this forum showed up with it--so both were here. At some point after my post above, the locked notice disappeared from this forum and reappeared [back?] in the Rants & Raves forum. It appears from this that the whole process was just a "user error" (finger check or whatever) on the part of the mod closing/locking/moving the topic. This just wasn't the first time I've seen this recently. I'll have to check the other forums that I frequent to see if I can find the other instances, presuming they haven't been corrected (which they may have been--since this one was). So, it doesn't look like a bug in the software, just--perhaps--a tired mod in need of sleep or something.
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"Face piles of trials with smiles; it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave."

It's similar to when the site hangs, and sometimes you end up with a double post. Topic moves are susceptible to that as well, it looks like that's what happened with this one.

It's more likely that the double-posts are due to the site hanging, the poster not really noticing but seeing nothing happening and thinking "did I click that button? meh, I'll click it now/again ...oops, wait--#@%$ site!" ...viola**, double-post.

(**Yes, I know it's really "voilà".)
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"Face piles of trials with smiles; it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave."

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