Bumping Up Old Threads

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fmttmadmin

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This can be really annoying and is often used as way of ridiculing someone for something they have got badly wrong in the past. It can be a bit of fun but it can also be a real pain.
I have been contacted about a software resource that can stop this happening. After 3 months all threads would be archived. You could search and reach them but they are locked and cannot be hoofed again.
Would this be something that is a good idea?
 
Horses for courses. The latest one (Wilder) is a legit revisit of our attitudes of 12 months ago and how much they can change.

The software wouldn't be able to discriminate between that and the more snidey instances.

On another thread I suggested a feature to allow the muting of entire threads. Wouldn't that solve it without breaking anything?
 
fmttmadmin said:
This can be really annoying and is often used as way of ridiculing someone for something they have got badly wrong in the past. It can be a bit of fun but it can also be a real pain.
I have been contacted about a software resource that can stop this happening. After 3 months all threads would be archived. You could search and reach them but they are locked and cannot be hoofed again.
Would this be something that is a good idea?
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I don't think that's necessary Rob. It sometimes annoys me a bit when people bump old threads just to try and make someone look bad, but it's no big deal really.
 
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I would rather you spent your time getting rid of these sleezy adverts once and for all its been going on for months on and offView attachment 51097
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Get rid of some advertising before wasting time on this is my opinion. I’ve just had a brexit post dragged out but I will own any mistakes I’ve made but brexit isn’t one of them and never will be….
 
The same people who bump threads to score a point will just start a new thread and link to the old one, so I don't think it really does much good, and it comes at the cost of not being able to make useful replies to old threads.
 
fmttmadmin said:
This can be really annoying and is often used as way of ridiculing someone for something they have got badly wrong in the past. It can be a bit of fun but it can also be a real pain.
I have been contacted about a software resource that can stop this happening. After 3 months all threads would be archived. You could search and reach them but they are locked and cannot be hoofed again.
Would this be something that is a good idea?
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I'd suggest locking threads when this happens in future Rob. I know it won't be easy to be on the ball with this as you can't monitor the site 24/7, but there may be a time where somebody wants to hoof a thread for a positive reason.
 
Adding an ignore thread button is the biggest improvement to the site you could make.

It would certainly calm some people down when they can just remove threads about things they don't want to see from view.
 
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I think you'd lose more than you gain to be honest.

I don't really have a problem with it anyway. If people are sad enough to want to "prove themselves right" then let them crack on and embarrass themselves.

I don't think there's anything embarrassing about being proven wrong unless someone was being a tool about their opinion in the first place, in which case they're fair game if you ask me.

As someone said earlier sometimes it's just interesting to see how opinions in general have changed.

Would be good to more easily see which threads were old threads mind, but that's a minor gripe. it's not hard to work out.
 
That's not a feature I'd want at all. I'm assuming this is about Wilder? It's ok for people to change their opinions. You can't erase what people thought in the past.

The average FMTTMer is big and strong enough to get over being reminded of a time when they perhaps had an opinion they regret.

I think there was a time I told everyone I was a dolphin. I'm not really a dolphin, but I'm fine with what I wrote.
 
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