to want a "Zombie Thread" warning when browsing?

[EssenceOfGelfling]

Just got halfway through 2 AIBU threads before realising both were originally 3 years old...

I don't know why it annoys me but it does SO MUCH!

Please MN can we have a really obvious zombie warning right at the top to warn readers if the OP is old? (the post that is, not the poster!)

There is usually one at the bottom where the commenst box is.

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The zombie box only lasts for a few posts. If there are too many new posts then the zombie box disappears.

Yabu.
There is a warning there on my screen.
It's the date

Also you only see the zombie box when you get to the comments so have potentially read through an awful lot of thread by then. I am with you OP, it irritates the hell out of me when I realise I am reading an old, old thread.

I can understand people resurrecting them when they have an update on something that happened ages ago - but not otherwise

And there is no zombie warning on the mobile ap either.

If a really long thread suddenly appears and it wasn't there say this morning, you zip up to the top, check date of OP

You have to kinda train self to check

#oldetymertoptip

It similarly annoys me with the top ten threads on BBC which often seem to have random old stories on, that you don't realise till you've clicked on it and started to read.

I'm an impatient reader, I launch right into the OP without bothering to read username, date, and all the other chaff at the top of the page!

In product design, if a large number of users are making the same error, the problem is with the product, not with the users being too careless to do it properly. So given how many people seem to post on zombie threads without realising, surely the problem is with the lack of highlighting of the zombieness, rather than the carelessness of the poster for failing to read the date of the OP?

On the other hand maybe I need to be less lazy (and go and hang the laundry out).

I want an actual zombie

Here you go

Like when you click on the link it's like nnngggggg aaarrrgg or something.

That would be horrible in the middle of the night.

Aw sooo diappointed OP I though this was some halloween fred of fun and scareniesss type thing

YABU