Sticky at the top of all topics?

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

Inspired by yet another zombie thread revival. Sensitive topic, long thread, revived with a reply to the OP not taking account of any of the replies/updates. Would it be possible to put a sticky at the top of every topic pointing out the bleeding obvious? Something like this:

Before you post, please do these simple common sense things:

1. Read the whole thread so you don't answer the OP, only to find out later things have moved on a lot since then. If this is too onerous, try just reading the OP's posts. Look at the bottom of her post for a handy way to do this.

1. Check how many posts are on the thread. If it's more than a handful, your point is very likely to have been made before, possibly many times.

1. Check the date of the last post on the thread. If it was a long time ago, do you have a good reason to revive the thread?

[On point 3, maybe any thread more than a certain number of days/weeks/months/years old should have to go through MNHQ to be revived - e.g. by the OP with an update. This would save a lot of unnecessary hoo ha.]

Totally agree but I think it will fall on deaf ears and nobody will take any notice anyway, or you wil get the "page didn't refresh properly"/"velcro baby"/"posting from an underground cave with no torch"/"just don't open the thread then"/"who made you the thread police" responses.

I think that you do get a little message in red if you are the first poster reviving a thread more than a year old.......but this only appears the first time someone posts and not for any subsequent posts. Obviously completely redundant when a post is revivied by a spammer.

It appalls me how many people won't even so much as glance at the last few posts and spot the capital letters ZOMBIE which might be a clue. I don't understand why they have so little interest in what else may have been said? I don't want any advice from someone like this.

It doesn't help that you can open a thread with 900 posts, read the OP and then immediately post at the bottom of page 1 without being taken to the end of the thread where you might spot the ZOMBIE comments.

Anyone who revives a tiresome classics post "for fun" should be given an immediate time out for 48 hours. There is a classics section. People can just go and read the threads for their own amusement. It really isn't necessary to inflict the "fun" on the rest of us

I used to think it must be much harder to see the number of posts on the app, but then I used it for a bit and found it's just as easy as it is on the website. It baffles me.

Another zombie thread today being kept alive by all the people who have totally failed to see it was started last spring and has over 900 posts already. Extraordinary.

Oh, and it's in trending. I expect a lot of people click on a thread title there and look no further.

No. It would be far better if MN made the title a different colour or something like that

Them changing something like that will be effective. Yet another sticky will not.

You're probably right, @WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants. It's a very minor irritation but it gets under my skin for some reason.