Dug720
See the line where the sky meets the sea?
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- Feb 16, 2012
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There's been a rash of zombie threads popping up in the past week. I think what happens is people do a search, and the results don't show when the original post was and the person doing the search then posts on that thread bringing it back from the netherworld.
Yeah, it’s a double-edged sword. If they ask a common question (or sometimes not a common one), someone will almost always find a thread and say “Use the search!!!” but then if they do use the search and pull up a thread without noticing the date people (eventually) comment about that! It would be nice if the boards had a way to pitch threads - or at least automatically lock them after they were inactive for a set time (12-18 months or so?) so they would appear in a search but NOT be reply-able.