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Zombies...again.

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EwanWhosearmy · 11/01/2017 18:31

I know this has been asked many many times. PLEASE can zombies be locked, and only reanimated by the OP, once they are over 6 months or so since the last post?

I've read 3 long threads this week, only to realise that the OP was from 2011 or 2012. There seems to be a thing that new users immediately start searching for old threads to reanimate, and with the growth in the site it's becoming all too regular. I don't understand why they do it, but it's really annoying.

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IonaMumsnet · 11/01/2017 19:40

Hi there EwanWhoseArmy. There have been a lot of these this week haven't there? It is most odd the way they seem to arrive in clutches.

As you say, this is something that comes up again and again, and we do understand that it's irritating.

However, when we've polled opinions and thought about it ourselves in the past, the conclusion has always been that, irritating though it is, the site as a whole and our users would lose more by not being able to post on old threads that they would gain. We've had some fabulous updates over the years - not just from OPs but invested others, and then there are lots of threads that are more 'advice-led' where it's actually quite interesting not just to have updates but to see how opinion has changed in a year or more.

The general feeling is that it would be a shame to not have the option. But what does everyone else think now though? We are always interested to hear opinions. Do you think the problem is that the people reanimating aren't spotting the zombies at the point of posting? Or just that they aren't bothered and post anyway, so it's more for people posting later in the thread that it's a problem?

We'd very much like to hear any bright ideas about another solution if anyone has any. We'll keep reading. Thanks for starting the thread.

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IonaMumsnet · 12/01/2017 23:34

Hello again. Just popping in to quickly answer the question about having a zombie thread warning at the top of threads. We did actually have exactly this back in the dim and distant past but feedback from users was that it was off-putting, especially to new members arriving on a thread, perhaps via Google, for the first time. It made people feel like they couldn't or shouldn't get involved with a thread, it seemed. So we decided then to move the warning to the end so you only saw it if you were actually posting on a zombie thread. We do see the argument for warning at the top of threads, too, but just thought you might be interested to know how that came about.

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