to get really annoyed when people bump old threads for now reason - LIKE THE BLOODY HOTEL SOAP STEALING ONE?

[MaundyBra]

Which I have just wasted time reading.

Sorry for typo: No reason

You should always 'flip' old threads for this reason IMO.

Oh what's flipping?

yanbu.
i have spent ages doing that before

Hopefully this thread might stop someone else doing it.

where it says 'Flip this thread' at the top.
Ever so handy

FurCoat - what does it actually do? (Just tried flipping this thread and nothing happened!)

Oh - it makes it go backwards in time. Worked this time!

I have my settings set so that the thread starts with the OP at the top all the time, saves lots of time. (and no fricking pages either)

thanks. shall get flipping in the future

Now someone's bumped the bloody trolling IT contractors one. . At least I remembered that one and didn't skim read the whole bloody thing.

I'm not suggesting that this is the right option for MN but I'm a moderator on a forum where bumping threads is a hanging offence. Precisely because there's nothing more fucking annoying than realising the debate is 5 sodding years out of date.

Just assembling lynch mob Gloria!

I don't want to make threads go backwards in time - I just want to remember to check if they started in 2008!

I dunno, I quite enjoyed reading the soap stealing thread.

It was an interesting thread... I wanted to know if the OP had a reply from the hotel? If she ever went back or wanted to - or was she blacklisted? What replies did the MNers who wrote to the hotel get? So many unanswered questions...

perhaps mnhq could put something in place that would alert people to old threads. Say, when you press post, something flashes up saying "oi, stupid. This thread is six years old, are you sure you want to proceed?"

or something slightly less confrontational.

Or just bloody lock threads that are over a year old.

I don't actually understand why it bothers you so much - don't you notice the date when you read the OP anyway?

Well no seth. Call me an utter fuckwit but I tend to assume that topics on page one of a message board are relatively current and haven't been exhumed from some sort of internet graveyard.

This fucked me off too. Read 18 sodden pages before skipping to the end. Glad I did and didn't read all 34. Can't believe the hoo ha they made of it on there!

Ha! Someone's done it again with 8 boys and wanting a girl but I wasn't fooled.

[getting wiser emoticon]