Any particular reason why this thread was locked?

[Yaowsers]

http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148942

The formatting was fine. The thread was just old. It was locked and the user was forced to create a new thread. What is the point of that? It looks stupid imo. Fastfokker did what everr member should have done and that is use the search feature.

My 2 cents.

[Rometiklan]

I agree. All this does is just discourages people from using the search function. Why bother since it's okay to start a new thread. Well, if that's the case, I don't want to hear any more whiners complaining about people not using the search function.

[FastFokker]

I tried.. I see people all the time getting bashed because they didn't search, and now their thread is a "repost".

I don't get this "no bumping old threads" rule, it's confusing.. at what point is a thread too old to bump vs. how soon is a thread a repost?

I'm so confused. I just want to make sushi!

Keelie messaged me later with her reason for locking it, and I don't recall exactly what she said, but I accept it. It's just really difficult to decide, whether to make a new thread or bump an old one.

Seems either way you get my avatar! >:(

[emptypocket]

Maybe this case can be used as precedent whenever someone gets chided for not using the search function. Either that or establish a rule about how old a thread must be before you can start a new thread about a similar topic.

[felix]

An auto-lock feature after a certain period after last post would solve both these problems.

Or you can do no thread resurrect for Hot Deals forum only.

[stevethewheel]

Isn't there some kind of archiving function that can be used so that threads pass over after X months? Then threads in archive are automagically locked and a person doesn't mistake Feb. 5 2003 for yesterday?

[Keelie]

that thread was asking how to make sushi, when it was brought back after nearly one year, it was asked, how many people make their own sushi?

i felt that should have been a new topic.

answered, locked.