You spot a topic of interest, open it up and start reading, then suddenly you come to a response YOU posted!
Then you check the date and find out the topic is a year or more old, but someone found it and posted a new response, which brought it back to the front page.
Comeon, be honest now.......
I bet I am not the only one who has done this.
Rod
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Yeah, just did it the other day. But with my memory it was all new anyway!
Yeah, just did it the other day. But with my memory it was all new anyway!
In over 10 years on this site I have had that happen many times.
On a different forum, I did that to a thread I started!
Happens to me all the time.
Rather than resurrect really old threads, it would be great if folks just started a new thread and referenced (linked to) the much older one in their initial post. But, realist that I am, I KNOW that ain't gonna happen.
Yes seems to happen a lot more lately. on the old forum the post weren't kept more then 6 months or so back. Now they are all kept it keeps happening!
You bet. If the topic was interesting enough for you to post a response initially, it makes sense that seeing it for the second or sometimes third time would interest you.
That's the great thing about having a bad memory. You meet new friends everyday & read new topics everyday. (LOL)
I would guess it is because more people are going to the forum search engine before posting their question in a new post. We see frequent responses to an OP's question to do a search, since that topic has been previously discussed.
Well put!
Heck the other night we had the power out for a couple of hours.
So with no TV and nothing else to do, my wife and I decided to play some dominoes, and we wound up having a nice little chat.
She seems like a nice person.........
Rod
Yep, happened to me several times. I think it is wonderful that some threads keep coming back - sort of like the world revolving.
Maybe forum topics should have an expiration date, after which new posts can't be added to them. The topics can still be accessed and linked to new threads.
Stuart
You're not alone, Rod!
Paul
Maybe forum topics should have an expiration date, after which new posts can't be added to them. The topics can still be accessed and linked to new threads.
Stuart
Excellent idea
Maybe you could run that by the webmaster over on the forum suggestion box.
Done!
Stuart
nope, hasn't happened since last week.....
Happens to me all the time.
Rather than resurrect really old threads, it would be great if folks just started a new thread and referenced (linked to) the much older one in their initial post. But, realist that I am, I KNOW that ain't gonna happen.
Happens to me too......
Sometimes a new thread might be better......but then I may repeat myself a LOT!!!!
I don't get it. What would be the advantage of starting a new thread on a similar topic?
Happens to me all the time, and more than once it has turned out that I started the topic in the first place. In fact, yesterday I just got one of those e-mail messages "somebody liked your topic" on a thread I started several months ago and hadn't seen since.
BUSTED! I do that from my phone all the time, then when I'm at the computer, I see all the reminders of things that I needed to do that I surely would have forgotten! 
No matter what happens, someone won't like it.
Used to be all threads over 6 months old disappeared. Don't think we want that again!
People are told "use the search" to find topics, and now we say old topics being resurrected is bad.
On the original topic, yes it's happened to me, maybe not as bad as others.
I saw one today where a TMCC crane question Alex asked about a year ago got bumped and some of the people posting today were answering Alex as if he asked the question yesterday.
Me personally, I'll probably just be more careful to read the date on the first post before getting too far into it.
I don't see any advantage of trying to stop people from digging up old posts to continue a discussion if it's still relevant to the original topic.
-Dave
Many times people resuscitate an old thread because they have a similar issue, so it's not always a bad thing.
I don't get it. What would be the advantage of starting a new thread on a similar topic?
Exactly!
If I was to start up a new topic similar to an old one, I would probably contradict myself! How bad is that?
Rod
Yep, not too often, but often.
Many times people resuscitate an old thread because they have a similar issue, so it's not always a bad thing.
Agree.
I think its working properly actually. Members do a search, find an old thread with a similar issue and if their problem is similar or needs further advice, they post to the old thread, and it moves to the current page where new responses will be added all in one place.
To me, it's working the way its supposed to.
Like Dave said, for years folks complained about threads with great info "falling off the edge of the world" after 6 months or so and being lost. They asked if there was a way to archive old posts.
So Rich changed forum providers for several reasons, one of them being so that all posts would be preserved and would not be lost after a certain period of time.
Now, we want to let topics, regardless of their value, be relegated to about page 248 of the forum forever??? Sure is tough to please people around here!
Jim
Sure is tough to please people around here!
You've got that right, Jim.
No matter what we do or how we do it, there will always be complaints. Comes with the territory...
Personally, I wish people would use the search function more to recycle the old topics, instead of starting new ones every 5 minutes. A couple months ago I dragged up an old one up on purpose, got a solution, then the topic went "back to sleep".
That's how it is supposed to work, isn't it?
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