Responding to very old posts

[PDLM]

KIA,

Any chance you could put a warning up when people try to reply to a thread that has had no other replies for a period of, say, 3 or 6 months? Along the lines of:

"The thread to which you are replying has had no new posts since <last post date>. Are you sure your reply is still appropriate?"

Or something like that?

[MovingIn07]

some of them become quite relevant again and again and often (other than the ones about accomodation prices) are not dated just by being a few months/years out of date!

[discobay]

Unless it's a post containing a wiki or something that does not age then I doubt that old threads are of any use to anyone except for reference or trogs.
Why not set them to auto-close.

[BenderLives]

thats funny...because all other forums i frequent usually say to not post new threads if there is an older thread existing. this avoids countless duplicates.

[PDLM]

My suggestion wasn't to stop people reopening old threads, just to stop them doing it accidentally.

[Claire ex-ax]

I'm surprised to see people response (i.e. give an answer to the question posed) to threads which are years old as if they are current. A little 'reminder' sounds appropriate and (some) tardy responders may appreciate it.

[hullexile]

Agreed. A warning would stop the mistaken response but still allow a deliberate one. If anyone still responds inappropriately to an old thread then no holds barred on the flak we can give them

[KnowItAll]

Let me look at how we can do this.

[Hokuto]

KIA actually just responded to an old (almost a year~!) post of mine -- I was both amused and satisfied. It's always nice to have a reply, regardless of when it comes.

[KnowItAll]

If we had that warning, I might not have.