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Zombie warning

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BeyondDoesBootcamp · 26/01/2015 11:09

Could it possibly pleeeease last longer than two posts? It only takes a newbie posting twice (easily done, once because they didnt know and once cause they missed something in the first post) and we have the same situation as the warning is supposed to prevent! Grin

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bruffin · 01/02/2015 13:52

It would help to deter spammers who resurrect threads to advertise

cherrytree63 · 01/02/2015 12:08

I don't like the "cliffhanger" zombie threads where I spend ages reading them to find there's no conclusion.
I would like to see the zombie alert at the top, but also how about "locking" zombie threads (another forum I use does this and puts a padlock symbol at the beginning of the title) . The OP can still link to the thread if necessary.

SoMuchForSubtlety · 01/02/2015 11:54

Couldn't you just colour code all posts that are more than, say, six months old a different colour?

TheEfficiencyMovement · 01/02/2015 11:51

I don't want to opt out of seeing zombie threads, I just want to be made aware that they are old threads. A zombie thread warning at the top and the bottom of a thread just makes me double check the dates. It should be permanant.

I've started a thread about this before too. I sometimes put a lot of thought into my posts and it's irritating when it's pointless.

ChippingInLatteLover · 30/01/2015 19:16

Kate. If so,done is interested in the thread, they'll read it whether it's a ZT or not, but you read it knowingly.

ChippingInLatteLover · 30/01/2015 19:15

Please add something to the OP!

I know you don't want warnings everywhere, but there really, really does need to be one in/on the OP. It could stay there once on. It could just be like the Mumsnet Have Commented thingy.

I wouldn't want to 'opt out' because I want to read updates from OP's, or even just interesting threads, but to know it's a ZT from the beginning.

It also means you can quickly check if if it's the OP updating or some twunt posting a dense wind up comment!

EhricLovesTheBhrothers · 30/01/2015 19:15

I don't want to opt out of seeing them altogether! Sometimes an OP might have updated and I'd like to scroll down and read that. I just want a little warning at the top!

PinkSquash · 30/01/2015 19:07

Please add something to the mobile site that tells you when a thread is a zombie one.

bruffin · 30/01/2015 19:04

i cant see how zombie threads are helpful. What happens is everyone reads the Op and replies to that and not a post the soneone has added at the bottom.

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RowanMumsnet · 30/01/2015 17:41

Just to add to KateS's post - we're looking into the possibility of adding this as a customise option, so that if you can't bear zombie threads you can opt out of seeing them altogether

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KateSMumsnet · 30/01/2015 15:57

Just to play the devil's avocado, we do try to encourage conversation as much as possible - so we'd be reluctant to but warnings everywhere in case it prevented someone from reading a thread the ended up being really useful to them.

Fanjango · 30/01/2015 00:09

And can you make the one at the top a zombie picture. A cute zombie sitting atop the thread would be great Grin

DixieNormas · 30/01/2015 00:06

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PulpsNotFiction · 30/01/2015 00:02

Aggghhhhh for Christ sake. Just fallen for another one. Please put the warning to the top.

PulpsNotFiction · 28/01/2015 21:19

YES! To having the zombie warning at the start of the thread.

Please do this!

Please do this soon. Thank you.

Oodbrain · 27/01/2015 19:00

Or only the Op can unlock

bruffin · 27/01/2015 18:24

I like closing a thread sfter 6 months so you can still read it or link to it, just not add to it. If op wants to uupdate, just star a new thread with update in the title and the link to their old thread.

LuisSuarezTeeth · 27/01/2015 18:16

I like magi's idea.

IamtheZombie · 27/01/2015 17:50

Zombie would like to see herself at the beginning and the end of dead threads. She would also like the warning to last for at least 6 posts (preferably 10 posts).

Sparklingbrook · 27/01/2015 17:19

I asked this last month. Sad

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/2252710-Zombie-Threads

HowCanIMissYouIfYouWontGoAway · 27/01/2015 17:16

yeah, I think if the OP wants to revive their thread after years then fair enough, but someone rocking up to a thread 6 years after it was posted to suggest that the OP might want egg with those chips is bloody pointless.

Locking them after a certain period of time to all but the OP would be a great idea! Then if the OP revives them, it unlocks them.

Otherwise, if someone has a burning desire to comment on a thread that's ten years old, they can always start a new one and link to it.

dalekanium · 27/01/2015 17:11

Wot ehric said

EhricLovesTheBhrothers · 27/01/2015 17:08

I'd rather just have a permanent little zombie sitting at the top of old threads so that I could see before bothering to read it all.

QueenTilly · 27/01/2015 13:33

Yes, definitely extend the zombie alert to about five posts. Please!

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