Read Only for Old Posts

Fedwrench · Dec 6, 2008

There have been many old threads brought back to life for more rehashing lately. Is there a way to make threads older than a year to be read only? If someone has new material relating to an old thread they could start a new thread with their fresh comments about new tool models or techniques. It's just a thought as I read a few threads today that had a few year gap between posts.

CAT_serviceman927 · Dec 6, 2008

Thank you. I was just thinking about starting this thread myself.

Uncle Buck · Dec 7, 2008

Getting tired of reading threads 2-3 years old. Something has to happen soon, once in a while is one thing, but this is getting out of hand! At first it didn't bother me but this is nuts, whoever is doing this needs to stop, or it needs to be controlled administratively.

CatfishXpress · Dec 7, 2008

I support this idea,

and if something is not done about it, I will repost in this thread two years from now to remind everybody.

Red Green · Dec 7, 2008

If the stuff wasn't still relevant people wouldn't be joining in on the posting other than the couple people dredging up OLD treads.

LoneGunman · Dec 7, 2008

It happens on every forum, what's the big deal? How much time could you guys have wasted by clicking it, seeing the date and moving on, 10 seconds?

bmwpower · Dec 7, 2008

Personally, I never agreed with those kind of rules. There's the "don't bump old threads" rule, then at the same time there's the "use the search rule" on other boards. It's like you can't win. You get yelled at for bumping an old thread or not searching for an old one that may have pertinent info. I say bump it as long as long as you have something worthwhile to say. There's a lot of good info on here.

My 2 cents....

nissan_crawler · Dec 7, 2008

Posting in an old thread where it's related to something relevant to what you want to know is fine, IMHO.

Posting in old threads just to read what you typed and raise your post count needs to quit.

As far as I'm concerned, there's only one member in particular that's the problem with this, and it's getting really old. Sorry, nobody cares about your input on something that was resolved 3 years ago, especially when you have nothing worthwhile to say about it. Nothing pisses me off more than reading 4 pages of old posts to get the background info, only to find some schmo had to throw his $.02 in and was wasting everybody's time.

bmwpower · Dec 7, 2008

If anyone has a problem with a post, please report it so it can be tracked.

shocksystems · Dec 7, 2008

bmwpower said:
Personally, I never agreed with those kind of rules. There's the "don't bump old threads" rule, then at the same time there's the "use the search rule" on other boards. It's like you can't win. You get yelled at for bumping an old thread or not searching for an old one that may have pertinent info. I say bump it as long as long as you have something worthwhile to say. There's a lot of good info on here.

My 2 cents....

I completely agree. Enough rules. Taking this option away would mean that for every frivolous post prevented you also prevent 10 worthwhile bumps of old threads. Even worse people would then start new threads with the same topics as old threads and some people would need to re-post the same ideas they had in the past on the new thread.

Jim

CatfishXpress · Dec 7, 2008

I think it all boils down to a post count issue. Some people seem to think they have more clout if they have a high post count. So they are dredging up old threads and posting to them to raise their post count.

Perhaps the members post count shouldn't be displayed. We all know who the senior members are around here without having to look at the post count.

Uncle Buck · Dec 7, 2008

CatfishXpress said:
I think it all boils down to a post count issue. Some people seem to think they have more clout if they have a high post count. So they are dredging up old threads and posting to them to raise their post count.

Perhaps the members post count shouldn't be displayed. We all know who the senior members are around here without having to look at the post count.

It is not old timers around here doing this is it? :headscrat

CatfishXpress · Dec 7, 2008

I'm not saying that its old timers doing it. I'm saying the new guys are doing it to drive up their post count in a hurry so it will look like they are old timers.

nissan_crawler · Dec 7, 2008

bmwpower said:
If anyone has a problem with a post, please report it so it can be tracked.

I'll flat out say it. Look up any post replied to be rhandwor in the last two weeks. Half of them spam the same company, the other half are bringing up 3 year old posts to tell them how to fix something, when the post says it was taken care of 3 years ago.

I did report several of the posts, nothing happened, so I quit.

A current example off the top of my head is the KAL tool thread.

nissan_crawler · Dec 7, 2008

wrenchr · Dec 7, 2008

It is getting quite old.

caper · Dec 7, 2008

Seems like he plugs the same companies quite a bit when he brings thses posts back from the dead.Does he have some connection to any of them?

caper · Dec 7, 2008

The aggravating thing is reading three pages of text and then finding his name and realizing its an old thread.Or not realizing that your posting stuff to help someone who's issue is three years old and isn't even on the board anymore.

a390st · Dec 7, 2008

I posted a reply to a couple of these stupid deals the other day before I realized what was going on. I hate that I kept them going, but I actually thought they were current threads and just didn't realize they were old. This one person is the entire cause of the problem. It isn't that these threads should be locked necessarily, but that this one person is screwing up the board for everyone. I don't mind an old thread if it is relevant, but this guy is just dragging up old threads to spam us.

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