Closed (Pinched Off) Threads

I was doing a search for Fleck and found a flock of Fleck threads, but all had been stopped for new comments besides the current one going on.  Some weren't very old.  Don't know if this is a bug or not.  Is there a new policy for automatically closing inactive threads after a few months?

Edited by Slartibartfast - August 27 2008 at 08:18

I didn't find any of the other Fleck threads that were open including the one with the most pages and a new one was opened recently.  Fortunately, that one remains open.

Speaking of tidy, there's a whole mess of Fleck threads (11) including several variations on the spelling/wording of "Bela Fleck & The Flecktones".  

Thanks for the tip.  And as always for the hard work.

Hmm, anyway of putting an automatic notice at the end of a thread when its closed to that effect?  I'm afraid it may lead to lots of people starting new threads when they should restart an old one.


Edited by Slartibartfast - August 27 2008 at 23:17

Easy Livin wrote: Or alternatively, if they are aware of a closed old one, they could add a link to it in the first post of the new thread.

Exactly !

Nice suggestion but it requires developpement / programming in the forum. We can do that easily with a new thread titled:  REOPEN CLOSED TOPICS REQUEST and post the "TID" of the requested thread to reopen and ADMINs will do the rest or create a new one and link to the new.

M@X wrote: Nice suggestion but it requires developpement / programming in the forum. We can do that easily with a new thread titled:  REOPEN CLOSED TOPICS REQUEST and post the "TID" of the requested thread to reopen and ADMINs will do the rest or create a new one and link to the new.