Suggestion to help deal with old threads resurrected

[faz]

Hi Moderators, thank you for doing the thankless job you are doing.

(Used to be a moderator myself on a local motorcycling forum in the past, which due to the nature of the motorcycling hobby, had an interesting mix of members and a bit of a challenge to moderate.)

Anyway,

I see here quite often that a thread is resurrected from the past, sometimes way past, by a newbie or ... and then people start posting their opinions in it without checking the date of the original post.

This is actually the main difference I see in this forum vs. motorcycling and car forums... in those forums a thread is usually a discussion and people tend to read all of the thread before posting their input... but here, again due to the nature of the forum in the main discussion section, most people just pop in, read the first post, put their opinion and get out. So even though someone has pointed out before them that this is an old thread, they still dive in with their input and sometimes even ask questions that the OP has already dealt with and answered two pages before.

My suggestion is to change the color of the posts (or at least the original starting post) as it gets older than say 2 months. Say after a month, turn the background color of the original post to yellow, after 2 months make it orange, after 3 months make it read.

Another possibility is to have the threads lock automatically after they are 6 months or more old. They are still part of the database and a search will find them, but won't be able to be resurrected by a quick reply of 'looks great, congrats !' post from someone who did a search and happened to come across it.

Just food for thought.