- Beta Tester
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 5-6 years
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Sold between 100 and 1 000 dollars
- United States
e.g. this one
Possible solution (or mitigation) ... if a thread is older than a certain age, when someone clicks a “Reply” have an intermediate pop-up warning “You are posting to a thread that has been inactive for xx months: Continue [Yes] / [No]”
- Exclusive Author
- Item was Featured
- Author was Featured
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- India
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 5-6 years
- Item was Featured
- Netherlands
- Referred between 50 and 99 users
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
Sometimes it’s useful to bring old threads, which many people didn’t seen, back though. And in this example, I think he new of the old-ness.
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Most Wanted Bounty Winner
- Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Beta Tester
Yeah, he just wanted to know who won the comp.
Anyway, it would be a good idea to color older thread red or gray to make it more obvious.
- Attended a Community Meetup
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Contributed a Blog Post
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
- Envato Staff
- Exclusive Author
- Gold Mo Grower
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Referred between 1 and 9 users
Those always make me laugh a little, but I think I’ve done it too. It seems like a lot of forums out there automatically lock posts that are a certain age. Is that going too far?
- Beta Tester
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 5-6 years
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Sold between 100 and 1 000 dollars
- United States
Sometimes it’s useful to bring old threads, which many people didn’t seen, back though. And in this example, I think he new of the old-ness.
And I’m not suggesting preventing resurrecting old threads .. just adding an intermediate check to make sure the poster intends to resurrect it. It may make sense to use an old thread to ask for information about a problem that has been posted before but I doubt that the noob who resurrected a 2-year old game contest thread with the message :
“i dont know how to make games”
had a clue that the contest was long over.
Personally I don’t know why anyone would post such a reply to that thread even if the contest was current .. probably some sort of troll 
- Beta Tester
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 5-6 years
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Sold between 100 and 1 000 dollars
- United States
Yeah, he just wanted to know who won the comp.
Not the noob who resurrected it. That was a follow up question.
Anyway, it would be a good idea to color older thread red or gray to make it more obvious.
Since most such resurrections are done by noobs they probably wouldn’t be aware of the color code. A simple intermediate dialog would prevent noobs (and not-so-noobs) from making fools of themselves on ancient threads but still allow dead-thread resurrection when appropriate.
- Bought between 50 and 99 items
- Has been a member for 5-6 years
A simple intermediate dialog would prevent noobs (and not-so-noobs) from making fools of themselves on ancient threads but still allow dead-thread resurrection when appropriate.
+111
a little warning would be great!
