Proposal:

[Groo the Wanderer]

Dunno about y'all, but I find it irritating to wade through old threads that have been resurrected by someone making an inane post to a discussion that rightfully died years ago. How about a feature that auto-locks a thread that has had no replies in say...a year? That way they are still findable, searchable, and crunchable, but not resurrectable.

who's with me?

I think this is a much more charitable option than punishing the offenders as they deserve:
[list]
[*]squeezing between the sweaty thighs of a sumo
[*]crushing beneath the waste generated by a school of orcas for one year
[*]tossed into the midst of a shopping mob at macy's with a 90% off sale on handbags
[*]cooked and fed to monkeys then thrown at zoo patrons fllwing digestion
[/list]

[Lil Red]

note to self: never tick off groo

[Nihil Obstat]

On most forums, etiquette says that before starting a new thread, you check to see if it's been discussed in the past, and if it has, you resurrect that discussion.

Of course, the search function is pretty awful around here, so that is only sometimes an option.

[CatherineM]

I like sumo wrestling.

[MissScripture]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1301953978' post='2225961']
On most forums, etiquette says that before starting a new thread, you check to see if it's been discussed in the past, and if it has, you resurrect that discussion.

Of course, the search function is pretty awful around here, so that is only sometimes an option.
[/quote]
However, it seems that people often feel the need to bump polls without actually contributing anything, just voting. And then someone else comes along and, not realizing it is years old, starts arguing with someone who isn't around.

[SaintOfVirtue]

How ironic it would be if this thread died for a year and was then resurrected.

[Papist]

Now I am tempted to go back and look at some old dead threads.

[Lil'Monster]

[quote name='Papist' timestamp='1301966359' post='2226005']
Now I am tempted to go back and look at some old dead threads.
[/quote]


yeah me too hahaha lol

[Groo the Wanderer]

[quote name='Papist' timestamp='1301966359' post='2226005']
Now I am tempted to go back and look at some old dead threads.
[/quote]

[Lil'Monster]

[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' timestamp='1301967615' post='2226015']




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thats not very nice! lol now u act like vee and ds! lol hahahaha

[Cherie]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1301953978' post='2225961']
On most forums, etiquette says that before starting a new thread, you check to see if it's been discussed in the past, and if it has, you resurrect that discussion.
[/quote]

idk, though, sometimes it's so old it needs a fresh new take! So starting a new thread seems better!

[Nihil Obstat]

There have been some very good threads around here that started after an old thread was bumped. Sometimes round two is better than round one.
Although these days, usually round one was more stimulating.

[Groo the Wanderer]

[quote name='CherieMadame' timestamp='1301968711' post='2226019']
idk, though, sometimes it's so old it needs a fresh new take! So starting a new thread seems better!
[/quote]

[Ed Normile]

Although age is a relative concept......

ed

[mommas_boy]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' timestamp='1301953978' post='2225961']
On most forums, etiquette says that before starting a new thread, you check to see if it's been discussed in the past, and if it has, you resurrect that discussion.

Of course, the search function is pretty awful around here, so that is only sometimes an option.
[/quote]

In lieu of the forums' search function, try this:

Google for:

"site:www.phatmass.com $SEARCH_TERM", where $SEARCH_TERM is what you're looking for. That'll only search phatmass's archives.