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Zombie threads

29 replies

Nothingyet · 21/03/2021 03:59

Are there more now than there used to be?
Who restarts them? Is it usually someone doing it for a laugh?
Does reviving an old thread ever serve a useful purpose?

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ilovesooty · 21/03/2021 06:00

I think it would make sense to lock them.

Orchidflower1 · 21/03/2021 05:52

Personally I think unless a thread is moved to classics it should be deleted after no updates/ posts after 6 months.

BullOx · 21/03/2021 05:45

I think a lot come from Google searches; new posters have searched for something specific and have found the thread, then post on it.

It doesn’t make any commercial sense for MN to stop it. They are getting traffic from it.

DramaAlpaca · 21/03/2021 04:07

Yes, definitely.
No idea, could be for a laugh but more likely a new poster who doesn't get MN's 'unwritten rules'.
No. I don't think so. They just tend to irritate long time members and never add anything useful to a thread.

MNHQ could help with this if they wanted to, but it's fairly clear they don't.

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