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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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MardyBra · 03/06/2013 12:35

It doesn't even have to be complicated. Just a spot of red for anything here the op is over a few months old or summat.

MardyBra · 03/06/2013 12:34

I think colour coding is a great idea.

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quoteunquote · 03/06/2013 10:03

I agree, Information changes, I think a fresh perspective is great, and some threads quite rightly should continue over time,

I just think that it would be nice that when old threads are bumped often by miscreants, people don't end up adding to a thread that is years out of date, some of the threads bumped are hurtful to the original OP, it can't be very nice to see one of your old threads bumped.

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YoniBottsBumgina · 03/06/2013 09:27

I can't understand forums which don't let you start new threads about some topic which was discussed once in 2003. A fresh perspective is great!

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quoteunquote · 01/06/2013 00:04

again

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quoteunquote · 22/05/2013 20:58

thought about the point that soupdragon made, just break up the line around the box(add your message here), the bigger the gaps the older the thread, so over a year like the above will be dots.

but still do the colours as it will be really helpful for most people.

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BoreOfWhabylon · 22/05/2013 17:30

Thanks Helen [Grin]

(I did report him on the thread and I may have been a little bit goady but all in a good cause )

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HelenMumsnet · 22/05/2013 17:17

@BoreOfWhabylon

Update: aforementioned fruitloop has now said that this is part of a research project - he looks at 20 threads per day and shares his findings with a 'group'!

Definitely time for colour-coding imo.

Thanks for the heads-up. We'll take a look.

BoreOfWhabylon · 22/05/2013 16:39

Update: aforementioned fruitloop has now said that this is part of a research project - he looks at 20 threads per day and shares his findings with a 'group'!

Definitely time for colour-coding imo.

BoreOfWhabylon · 22/05/2013 15:50

aaaaaaand here's another one

It's in Relationships and appears to have been resurrected by a fruitloop

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quoteunquote · 21/05/2013 23:15

We can distinguish the most differences in greens, comes from when we went gathering our food, so we "see' more greens than the other colours.

He already cannot see the difference between blue and purple at all

well no art school for him then.

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SoupDragon · 21/05/2013 21:45

as we age we all lose the ability to differentiate between colours as accurately as we do as children

Heaven help DS2 then... He already cannot see the difference between blue and purple at all.

SoupDragon · 21/05/2013 21:44

Less than there would be on Dadsnet :)

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quoteunquote · 21/05/2013 19:22

Grin good point,

as we age we all lose the ability to differentiate between colours as accurately as we do as children, most people have no concept of their diminishing ability to distinguish subtleties in the colours and tones,

So give each of the colours above a pattern (like sewing stitch indicators symbols on sewing machines) , then all people will be able to differentiate.

I wonder how many colour blind MNers there are?

good forward thinking soupdragon.

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SoupDragon · 21/05/2013 19:04

What about people who are colour blind?

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quoteunquote · 21/05/2013 18:57

troll bumping on zombie thread, white english muslim mum

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SuffolkNWhat · 18/05/2013 14:46

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quoteunquote · 17/05/2013 12:17

come on MNHQ colour code the threads,

I keep spotting zombie threads, I haven't been on here yet and not spotted one recently,

there one on purple shoe polish running now, the child in question must have feet twice the size of the shoes that needed polish now.

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SuffolkNWhat · 17/05/2013 11:47

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quoteunquote · 14/05/2013 20:03

someone had the cheek to call me rude when i said ffs! Shock

well I was less polite on the above thread.

I do understand else where on other forums, the done thing is to find an existing thread, so for a new poster an understandable mistake, but I don't think the majority of zombie threads resuscitated are anything other than amusement for the sad person who did it.

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SquirtedPerfumeUpNoseInBoots · 14/05/2013 19:54

Should have explained I didn't bump it, a few others did. I picked it up on Active.

SquirtedPerfumeUpNoseInBoots · 14/05/2013 19:43

I replied on a zombie thread this week, and then someone had the cheek to call me rude when i said ffs! I think colour coding is a great idea.

Also the search results need looked at. Date order is a good suggestion and can they be a bit more accurate too? If I'm searching for a particular phrase, I don't want search results of every thread that contains either word. Oh and while I'm on a roll, I can't work the thing that lets you choose which topics to search. It's ridiculously difficult.

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quoteunquote · 14/05/2013 19:32

feel free to link so we know what to avoid, is it the same person bumping them?

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hobnobsaremyfavourite · 14/05/2013 19:05

Two or three zombies in aibu this evening.

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quoteunquote · 14/05/2013 18:58

yet another

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