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Colour code zombie threads?

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quoteunquote · 29/04/2013 19:10

I unwittingly contributed to a thread that had for some reason (best known to the person that did it),been resuscitated,

Could you add, a colour bar where the title is, or on the side, that indicates how old a thread is, blue for current, green a week old, yellow a month, orange six, and red year and beyond,

Then people would be instantly aware when joining in with a thread as to when it was started, as clearly a lot of us don't spot the year when on these threads, and some times people carefully choose threads that the day and month match to resuscitate.

Anyway it would be a simple way of stopping the annoying problem, and for people like the person who started the thread in the above link, they wouldn't have to have something they probably rather forget jump out at them, I hope the OP of that thread is happy now.

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quoteunquote · 27/10/2013 19:04

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1383384-to-report-this-non-picking-up-dog-poo-owner-to-the-police

Hopefully not the poo trolls.

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quoteunquote · 22/09/2013 13:07

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1649484-To-consider-not-shopping-the-thief

The zombie should stay a lot longer than two posts, it may be giving a false sense of security.

I didn't bump the thread by writing a zombie warning on it, maybe MNHQ should comment on threads like these, so even if the warning has gone, it will help people to remember to look at the date of the OP.

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quoteunquote · 18/09/2013 09:56

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a1666487-To-get-rid-of-puppy

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/facebook/1730703-My-BOSS-has-sent-a-friend-request-on-FB-WWYD

there are plenty more,

could the Helen on the gin zombie warning stay longer please?

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quoteunquote · 14/08/2013 23:17

I agree the zombie should stay for entirety, then at least people would be able to make an informed judgment if they wanted to contribute to the thread.

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BlehPukeVomit · 14/08/2013 20:59

I don't think the zombie warning should disappear at any time even if the thread receives lots of new posts

DoItTooJulia · 14/08/2013 19:29

Late to the party, but it worked! I almost posted on a zombie thread....until I saw the zombie! Yay!

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quoteunquote · 14/08/2013 14:49

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quoteunquote · 14/08/2013 14:49

that a really good point BeyondTheLimits

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BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability · 14/08/2013 14:45

Sorry to piss on your chips HQ, (I do love the zombie pic btw!) but could we have a warning at the top of the thread too? Just thinking with all the posts here about someone benefiting from the advice years down the line, that advice changes over time, and could be hugely inaccurate by the time the new person sees it?

Maybe if the warning disappeared at the bottom after two posts, but one remained at the top of the thread? (Also saves me spending hours reading a thread to get to the bottom and find its a dead one!)

BlehPukeVomit · 14/08/2013 00:20

I love the new zombie thread alert. It is just perfect.

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quoteunquote · 13/08/2013 23:14

ClayDavis Interesting that happened almost immediately the zombie system started.

I suspect colour coding was too complicated.

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TheDoctrineOfJetlag · 13/08/2013 22:25

Love the message!

ClayDavis · 12/08/2013 21:36

Nothing really wrong with resurrecting this zombie thread. But it does indicate a slight flaw in the system. What happens when at least 2 people don't care that they're resurrecting a zombie thread?

FruOla · 12/08/2013 15:19

I refer to a Zombie thread from a while back (this is quite a nice one).

The OP had posted about a buggy. Nobody answered her. Three years later she answered herself - despite the fact she hadn't namechanged in the meantime, but she hadn't noticed that she was answering herself. And her NN was so apt to her talking to herself after that length of time.

But that was harmless, albeit a bit daft.

Some of them, though, make you think 'WTF?'

atrcts · 12/08/2013 15:12

Haha - oh yeah, I gotcha. Mind you, if its true that "there is nothing new under the sun", someone else could be in the exact same spot and benefit from the discussion?

Kind of nothing is ever wasted mentality

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HelenMumsnet · 12/08/2013 09:31

@atrcts

What's wrong with resurrecting a zombie thread?!!!!

Nothing.

The problem was, some folks weren't realising it was a zombie thread - and were then annoyed at having taken the time to, say, answer someone's questions about potty-training their two-year-old when said two-year-old was now about eight.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 11/08/2013 22:50

People offer billions of advice not noticing that the ops children are probably grown up by now.

atrcts · 11/08/2013 21:34

What's wrong with resurrecting a zombie thread?!!!!

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HelenMumsnet · 11/08/2013 21:27

@Onetwothreeoops

So, if a spammer reanimated a thread and posted twice the Zombie warning disappears?

I think I see a potential flaw in the system...

True. But spammers aren't known for their intimate knowledge of MN Talk features, eh?

(well as long as they're not reading this thread )

Onetwothreeoops · 11/08/2013 18:24

So, if a spammer reanimated a thread and posted twice the Zombie warning disappears?

I think I see a potential flaw in the system...

secretscwirrels · 11/08/2013 15:30

I love it. Thank you tech.

Kidsarekarma · 11/08/2013 15:24

Phew Helen, thanks. I can see it would be unhelpful to post on some old threads.

I'm still waiting for a reply to my question on it

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HelenMumsnet · 11/08/2013 10:46

@Kidsarekarma

Oh, I've just posted on a zombie thread, sorry.

I thought I'd recycle it as it's in site stuff and I have the same problem as the original OP.

No, that's fine, Kidsarekarma. It's not forbidden to reanimate a dead thread. It's just that some folks were posting on them, unaware that it was long dead...

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HelenMumsnet · 11/08/2013 10:45

@IamtheZombie

Zombie has now seen the Zombie thread alert. She has also checked her emails. MNHQ appear to have forgotten to contact her to negotiate the terms on which they may use her image.

Ahem.

teacherwith2kids · 11/08/2013 10:44

Oooooh! I like to zombie thread alert A LOT!!

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