featured_spectre Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Can someone tell me why the old threads get revived? I have noticed an increase on it recently (as was mentioned at one of the meals at BETT) and it is starting to get annoying to see old threads revived when the relevance has gone. Sorry for the slight rant!
LosOjos Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 If it's tech or unanswered I can't see a problem; if somebody has the same/similar problem, why start a new thread? But it is annoying when general chit chat threads get revived. Having said that, I'm now going to wait twelve months before I post my next reply in this thread
elsiegee40 Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Sometimes it's similar problems being resurrected by people with further questions Sometimes it's spamming... we got very popular with the Russians a week or so ago!
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strawberry Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 think its largely the google effect. Hence the large number of one post wonders and blatently non education folks we've seen of late.
AyatollahPies Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Rather old threads revived than new threads that have absolutely nothing to do with I.T. 1
pete Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Occasionally it's "someone on edugeek said something nasty about my company 15 billion years ago and I've just noticed / just joined the company and I AM INCENSED". Which is always funny - lighten up Francis.
sparkeh Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Rather old threads revived than new threads that have absolutely nothing to do with I.T. Which reminds me, what is everyone having for lunch today?
LeMarchand Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 I've resurrected a couple that it seemed more sensible to add to rather than start a new thread for. Last time I added to a resurrected thread was because I tend to have I-Spy on and assume that anything showing up there is current, as opposed to recently-resurrected. Oh: Ham & Pickle sarnies, Broccoli & Cauliflower soup + a caramel Rocky bar.
dwhyte85 Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Sometimes it's similar problems being resurrected by people with further questions Sometimes it's spamming... we got very popular with the Russians a week or so ago! XRumer 7.0 has just been released... be prepared for an influx of spam!
webman Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Bossman and I talked about this last week, and thought an anti-resurrection feature might be nice. The reply box on threads over a certain age should not be visible by default. Instead, a message should be displayed saying something like, "This thread hasn't been active for 6 months. Are you sure you want to post a reply now?". Underneath that should be a large button should say "No thanks", with a smaller text link beside it saying, "Yes, I'm sure". Clicking the Yes link will then allow the reply box to be shown as normal. 3
beeswax Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 With over 30,000 members and new folk joining on a daily basis, almost 68,000 threads and over 617,000 replies, you're bound to get this problem. Folk new to educational IT, those who have found a fresh way to accomplish a previously posted older task may feel that it needs to be added to an older post in order to see in context/development. Webman's idea is good, but the point of being able to search and view older threads is that Edugeek is a great source of knowledge, covering a wide areas of expertise. 1
webman Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 beeswax: I'm not saying they should be unsearchable or viewable at all - just that a gentle reminder stating that the thread is "old" and potentially no longer relevant could be helpful in preventing old ones being accidentally revived. 1
Butuz Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Not sure what is worse - archaic thread revivals. Or threads moaning about archaic thread revivals ...... Butuz 1
webman Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Not sure what is worse - archaic thread revivals. Or threads moaning about archaic thread revivals ...... Just wait until this is revived in 2014! 1
browolf Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 if you've got something relevant to add to old threads, you should add it because a old thread may be still unsolved or a repository of relevant information/opinion. Forever availble through google. Now I'm going to check all the old threads I started and perhaps further despair nephilim with some more revivals.
GrumbleDook Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Personally ... I would like to see someone go back through all the old threads, collate the really good responses and put this into the wiki.
tech_guy Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 I really enjoyed the freebie I got from Angela at BETT but perhaps we shouldn't go into that..... ;-)
MkII Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 A: because auto suggestions for threads on the same topics already covered encourage you to?
webman Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 Personally ... I would like to see someone go back through all the old threads, collate the really good responses and put this into the wiki. Nicely volunteered, Tony
Butuz Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 It amazes me how selfless and dedicated Tony is to edugeek. I bow down sir, good work!!! Butuz
sonofsanta Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 Maybe my netiquette module didn't have all the packages downloaded into at the point of manufacture, but I've never really seen a problem with necroing old threads, providing the new post is relevant. Particularly here, where Googling for a problem I'm having nearly always brings up Edugeek as the first domain anyway, if there is something significant to add to a new thread then it's worth doing. If the new post is inane and pointless then that's its own issue, just because a stupid post is attached to an old thread doesn't necessarily make it any worse than it would be anywhere else. 1
GrumbleDook Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 Oh to have the time to go through old threads .... Don't forget I'm retired ... I'm just some old bloke who keeps turning up to hang round old friends ... In summary ... I suggest things ... Others can do the work!
srochford Posted January 18, 2011 Posted January 18, 2011 I'd agree with @sonofsanta. I've just spotted yet another "how many people work in your department" thread - surely it would make much more sense to add that on to one of the existing threads so you then get a reasonable amount of info in the same place on the same subject. If the initial thread was "how do you do XXX in Windows 2000" and someone now wants to do the same for Windows 7 then that probably merits a new thread (unless, of course, the answer is the same) Why does it matter if an old thread is continued? Is this some kind of weird ageism going on in Edugeek :-)
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