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Old 05-May-2008, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Jay200MPH View Post
Could this be changed to display only topics that have been posted to in, say, the last two months or so? Seems like that wouldn't be a huge amount of work and I suspect would eliminate the problem entirely.
I don't know about the first one, but you'd be wrong on the second. For example, we had a member once who would regularly resurrect literally dozens of five-year-old threads for "me, too!" postings. Many of these threads were almost entirely contributed to by people we haven't seen in two or more years, some of whom have been post-merger banned and therefore cannot come back to them. I grant you that thread necromancy has gotten worse in recent months, since that "related threads" thingy appeared, but it's always existed around here.
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