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Why don't the mods make things easier on themselves, and auto-lock topics after say, 6 months or a year. Since anyone posting to them gets asked to start a new thread virtually 100% of the time, would help reduce the incident rate.Everah wrote:(Quick note, I am the worst mod as it relates to replying to posts that come more than a year after last activity without knowing that the thread was stale for more than a year.)
Definitely not pruning, as they usually contain valuable info, but auto-locking. I'm almost positive phpbb had a feature for that.
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Well, if you weren't a participant in the original thread, chances are that you won't remember it, anyway. It's easy to fail to notice the year in the post date without actually looking for it.Everah wrote:(Quick note, I am the worst mod as it relates to replying to posts that come more than a year after last activity without knowing that the thread was stale for more than a year.)
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Don't make excuses for him! He must hang for his crimes! Get him!superdezign wrote:Well, if you weren't a participant in the original thread, chances are that you won't remember it, anyway. It's easy to fail to notice the year in the post date without actually looking for it.Everah wrote:(Quick note, I am the worst mod as it relates to replying to posts that come more than a year after last activity without knowing that the thread was stale for more than a year.)
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One of the biggest problems with PHP is that it's a language that attracts inexperienced developers due to it's ease of use - you can get pretty much anything done quickly if you're willing to put up with a crazy and illogical solution. The thread mentioned is a great example - someone has worked out a way to fire a script seemingly concurrently and they've figured it's something that's worth exploring, consequently awful solutions spring up occasionally and they give PHP a bad name.
Still, so long as people learn from their (and other's) mistakes I guess there's a silver lining.
Still, so long as people learn from their (and other's) mistakes I guess there's a silver lining.
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