To be a bit hmmm about threads being resurrected long after they died ?

[BoysAreLikeReindeer]

Or am I just a grump?

It's odd, I'll admit .

i'm veering towards grump but am undecided... What exactly is annoying you? (I know it's that rottweiler thread, but why, iykwim?)

Lol, Desi, I am deffo a grump today .

Heh heh

Ach, I've become a bit intolerant in my old age I think.

How did you guess obm ?

Well, it is a bit anal to go through the archives on long dead threads. Why not start another?

It's like bitching by proxy, most of the time.

Don't get me wrong. I love my history, but I'd prefer to dredge up something more enlightening than an very old MN thread.

Like a Roman coin, or an Anglo-Saxon johnny?

lol reindeer-skin anglo-saxon johnny!!

but how do they come up again?

do people think - today I'm really pissed off about {insert issue} so I'm going to search it on MN and post even if the thread's so old that margoandjerry is the original margoandjerry?

Desi, that's it exackerly.

I hate reading through and discovering that I have wasted time and energy on summat irrelevant and ancient. Grrrr

This was happening on another forum I go on. Unfortunately a 2 year old thread about a poster's miscarriage was revived. I am sure the OP didn't want to be reminded of it.Another time a blazing row was revived where all parties had said sorry and were back being friends, but because others hadn't noticed it was old, they got involved.

I think there should be a way of locking posts older than say 6 months so they can be looked at, or linked to, but not added to.

Why? [hgrin] I'm a saddo, I like reading old posts, it's a bit like reading a book with a definite ending, while the new posts can be annoying because you wait to hear the outcome and the OP never comes back. But you still spend a good few days in suspension... As I said, a saddo...

[hgrin] you funny bugger.

no idea, i haven't noticed any.

I think anything older than 6 months could be in red writing, or even just have the date in red, so you notice before getting allll the way to the end.

Newbies here get told off all the time "oh this has been done soooo many times, can't you search the archive??" and so on - perhaps someone actually did decide to search old threads?

[hgrin]

It can be a mistake. I've done it myself. In my case, I was searching the forums for a problem that was relevant to what I had and forgot myself for a moment and commented on the end of the old thread. A poster who is still very present here was horrifically rude to me about it even though they knew I was new. It caused me to name change and I very nearly didn't come back, it was that horrible. I still avoid this persons threads now.

So while I agree it can be annoying when things like this happen, please don't assume people are doing it to be awkward! :)

I totally disagree - some threads do take a long time to play out.

It's because they come up in google searches and the searcher (obv having a similar issue) replies without realising. Shit happens.

You are a total grump. Given that MN is a resource of information, it's hardly surprising that many people come to it first through googling specific issues. And they may well add to a thread without realising it's very old. Nothing to get knickers in a twist about.

Incidentally I've accidentally done this after finding a thread in active convos, even though it later transpires that the message previous to mine was 2 years ago. I'm mystified about how this can be possible, but possibly a glitch?

Fools the lot of you [hgrin]

I shall say it again...you funny bugger.

aaaah!

I think BellasFormerFriend is right, some people get sometimes annoyed, when a new person brings up a well worn issue. If I want to ask AIBU, I read a few old posts and then I don't bother anyone starting another similar one. Although I endlessly enjoy a MIL bashing ones, especially as I've never had one and my own mother is rather tactile/ sensible/ polite.

ROFL I started reading the OP all "why is BALD a reindeer...bit early"

pmsl

Jaquelinehyde [hwink]