I admit that I had a rather different view than MrProgrammer. I was more prone to let discussions open. Sometimes there are good follow-ups even a long time after the last post. But well, that's quite rare.
You have indeed good points. It's just that users would not think about giving a reference to the topic they found related to their issue.
And I see that in many other forums, the topics are automatically locked after some time, like 30 days with no reply.
Maybe we should add a section in the survival guide about locked topics explaining why we lock them and to contact a moderator if there is additional information worth reopening a topic.
The only thing if I may is that I would not add the green check mark with dropped topics because if they are dropped, then they don't have a solution and showing a green check mark would be misleading (even if the dropped tag is in the title).
You have indeed good points. It's just that users would not think about giving a reference to the topic they found related to their issue.
And I see that in many other forums, the topics are automatically locked after some time, like 30 days with no reply.
Maybe we should add a section in the survival guide about locked topics explaining why we lock them and to contact a moderator if there is additional information worth reopening a topic.
The only thing if I may is that I would not add the green check mark with dropped topics because if they are dropped, then they don't have a solution and showing a green check mark would be misleading (even if the dropped tag is in the title).
Statistics: Posted by Hagar Delest — Sat Nov 23, 2024 12:36 am
