Maybe not tech
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Maybe not tech
I often see people being told that they are responding to a several year old post. How do you guys know how old the posts are? I think I may have asked this question before. This time I'm going to print it out and tape it to my computer. Thanks
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Hi 7dS,
Each post has the date and time it was posted shown in the post's upper left hand corner. The post first shows just the time, then 'today' is added, then 'yesterday' yesterday is added, and finally the date is added after 2 days.
Regards,
Alan
Sometimes it's better to start a new thread than just re-open a 10 year old thread.
Each post has the date and time it was posted shown in the post's upper left hand corner. The post first shows just the time, then 'today' is added, then 'yesterday' yesterday is added, and finally the date is added after 2 days.
Regards,
Alan
Sometimes it's better to start a new thread than just re-open a 10 year old thread.
Last edited by Alan 71; Nov 9, 2013 at 01:50 PM.
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WOW!.......HOW STUPID DO I FEEL! If I couldn't figure that out I guess I'm going to have real fun with distributors/ valves/vacuum advance and the rest. My wife told me if I keep watching Archer and the other adult? cartoons my mind would turn to mush.. Thanks Alan for not laughing at me. I circled that area on my screen to remind me. Matt
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Hi 7d,
What's kind of funny is when someone responds to a post in a 10 year old thread and the member who made the 10 year old post hasn't been back to this site since they made that post.
Regards,
Alan
Some days a little mush brain is needed to survive!
What's kind of funny is when someone responds to a post in a 10 year old thread and the member who made the 10 year old post hasn't been back to this site since they made that post.
Regards,
Alan
Some days a little mush brain is needed to survive!
Melting Slicks
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From: Emerald Isle NC
Love the old parts for sale posts. Folks looking to buy parts that were listed in 2006...
The Porsche forum I frequent is worse. The date is at the bottom of the original post. You're reading along, thinking "kicka$$ I need that part!!", only to see it was posted in 2002. Major chain-jerk!
Carter
The Porsche forum I frequent is worse. The date is at the bottom of the original post. You're reading along, thinking "kicka$$ I need that part!!", only to see it was posted in 2002. Major chain-jerk!
Carter
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Annnnnnnnnd....I'll start printing the needed as I find it in the forums & adding it to my old-school binder so everything will be in the car when I need it.
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How tough could it be to put one line of code in the CF programming to check the date of the LAST post on a thread you have retrieved, and calculate the time elapsed (days) between that post's date and the present date? If that time difference is more than 90 days, a "flag" could be placed on the screen that this is an "old" post.
Once you get that notice, you can choose to close that thread (again) or continue with a response.
EVERYONE responds to "old" threads every now and then. We just get into "automatic thread cruising" mode and don't check the dates. Sometimes, a little "automatic" assist from the programming is just what we need....
Once you get that notice, you can choose to close that thread (again) or continue with a response.
EVERYONE responds to "old" threads every now and then. We just get into "automatic thread cruising" mode and don't check the dates. Sometimes, a little "automatic" assist from the programming is just what we need....
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Another thing that would help with old posts is being able to delete a post. Why can't the "owner" of a post delete it? I cannot think of a good reason. Maybe it was a "dumb" question and he/she doesn't want it "searchable" in the future. It should be his choice.
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how about automatically 'CLOSING' a thread after 1 year of inactivity.. probably not to hard to program and should be an option for an administrator to do. .. then it is there for searching but not available for replying...
I am guilty too of replying to a thread without looking at the date, and I did get a friendly reminder from an admin/moderator regarding what I did.. I felt kinda silly..
I am guilty too of replying to a thread without looking at the date, and I did get a friendly reminder from an admin/moderator regarding what I did.. I felt kinda silly..