Re: What is the point of pulling up old threads

BeccaLou · ‎02-09-2016

Maybe by error.I may have done it a time or two myself. Just see a topic and then relize that it's old..

FuzzyFace · ‎03-15-2010

to the OP: why does it bother you so much? Is it all that important?

this is my nic · ‎03-30-2010

I try to check if a subject has already been discussed. If so, I add my comments there even if the original post was several months ago.

This seems to be a case of being wrong no matter what. If a new thread is started and one on the same subject has been done, we hear about "beating a dead horse". If an old thread gets new life, we hear about resurrecting old posts. Can't win.

Lipstickdiva · ‎03-10-2010

The Mod has now said twice in this thread that a thread has to be older than a year to be considered thread bumping.

Sometimes I believe there are glitches on this board. A couple of times there was a thread on the first page of a forum so I opened it and without looking at the date, responded. Then I realized it was a couple of years old. I have no idea how it got to the first page. Mine was the first response on it in years, there was no deletion of a post indicated and I didn't bump it up. But somehow, there it was.

I've seen this happen to other posters to who aren't thread bumpers.

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@Lipstickdiva wrote:
The Mod has now said twice in this thread that a thread has to be older than a year to be considered thread bumping.

Sometimes I believe there are glitches on this board. A couple of times there was a thread on the first page of a forum so I opened it and without looking at the date, responded. Then I realized it was a couple of years old. I have no idea how it got to the first page. Mine was the first response on it in years, there was no deletion of a post indicated and I didn't bump it up. But somehow, there it was.

I've seen this happen to other posters to who aren't thread bumpers.

@Lipstickdiva. Yes, I have had that happen to me. I responded to a thread and then realized it was old and I was the first to respond. I didn’t bring it up from anywhere, it was just there.

Yes, I saw the Mod respond twice. I don’t think everyone reads all the posts. Just the first and responds.

Daisy Sunflower · ‎10-26-2010

Maybe threads more than a year old should be deleted. What's the point in keeping them?

dooBdoo · ‎06-27-2010

@Daisy Sunflower wrote:

Maybe threads more than a year old should be deleted. What's the point in keeping them?

@Daisy Sunflower, The older threads can be really helpful for reference, such as recipe threads mentioned earlier in this discussion. The problem lies in keeping them open for bumping. That could easily be remedied with a "programming 101" piece of code that would loop through older threads (perhaps those with the most recent reply older than one year from today's date, so basically inactive for a year or more) and simply close them to additional comments. It would take a programmer only a few minutes to create the code, and then it could run as a maintenance program to periodically close threads once they met the criteria.

The problem seems to be that QVC opted for cheap, basic "canned" website software that doesn't permit any enhancements, so we seem to be stuck with this rather archaic, glitchy, and not-user-friendly website.

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