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Zombie threads

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RobotHamster · 02/03/2013 01:13

There seems to have been a lot of spam recently, particularly the bumping of old threads to advertise something.

PLEASE can you work out a way to highlight old threads so MNers don't spend hours reading through them. You already have the facility to highlight the OP on threads - It shouldn't be that hard to do something to change a thread to slightly grayed out if its older than 6 months. IF something 200 days = blank. Or something. PLEASE.

It would also discourage the spamming fuckwits.

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HelenMumsnet · 02/03/2013 11:37

Morning. We do see what you mean. It's dead annoying when spammers/trolls resurrect an old thread but tbh it's dead annoying when spammers/trolls post on a recent/new thread, too!

We don't think it's the bumping of old threads (zombie threads) that's the issue, really; it's the spammers/trolls who bump them.

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HelenMumsnet · 02/03/2013 12:00

We'll have a think but I know that last time this was raised, we did think of examples of times that old threads had been resurrected for good reasons.

My mind is completely blank now too long spent standing on football sidelines this morning so I can't think of any examples. But there def are some.

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