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Why not just auto-lock old topics?
Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 5:37 am
by dfreely
Why not just set the forum to auto-lock old topics (say after a month or so?) in the Feedback section?
It just seems like that would be easier than having moderators manually lock an old topic after it has been revived.
Re: Why not just auto-lock old topics?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 1:06 pm
by cards918
Now, I'm not a computer expert, but I think that would take some extra software. Would it be a nice feature? Yes of course, but it more that likely would cost the admin a pretty penny
Re: Why not just auto-lock old topics?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 2:01 pm
by Reav
Admin couldn't care less about the website. So this ain't gonna happen. It would be nice though.
Re: Why not just auto-lock old topics?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 3:32 pm
by dfreely
It shouldn't take extra "software". I haven't used phpBB in a long, long time, but auto-locking old topics is a feature included in many forum scripts, so I'd assume phpBB would have it too. Even if it doesn't, somebody has probably created a mod/hack/plugin for it.
Re: Why not just auto-lock old topics?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 7:09 pm
by missmaexox
Then the moderators don't have much to do. A majority of the stuff I do is lock old topics, I'm not sure if it's because I'm not assigned to a forum, so I can't delete them, or just because that's the majority of problems. But, that would make a moderator's job way too easy.
-Kelsey
Re: Why not just auto-lock old topics?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 10:01 pm
by dfreely
The forum should be set up so that moderators would have less to do anyways.
This of course brings me back to one of my earlier threads - this forum doesn't need a hundred moderators.