Posting in old topics
It seems there are a lot of people asking "I have this problem too" on very old questions that never got answered.
How could we encourage people to create a new question instead? It's almost ne...
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Hi JHunt,
Thanks for bringing up this question.
I noticed this before. What do you think we can improve here?
Don't allow posts on old topics after 1 month or so. A new topic can always include a link to an old one for reference.
Speaking of posting in old topics... ;-)
I was wondering about the "sort posts chronologically" option when we move posts?
As an example, I have just moved a follow up question from this thread, originally asked in 2012, to its own thread.
I wondered if the "sort posts chronologically" option when moving would have moved the original thread back down to its original 2012 place in the list, which would be great. But I saw the warning about impacting performance, and there's some implication that it's going to sort the whole forum again, and I decided not to use it. But would it have been ok to do so in this case? What really are the side effects?
Hi JHunt,
Usually, if somebody posts a question to an old topic, the topic appears in the current list of topics. It's the expected behavior. I have never seen any warnings asking to re-sort all topics. I would ask you to avoid doing so.
Do you have any images of this warning?
- Not a warning asking you to do it, it's just an option on there on the "move post" page. You have the option to "Sort Posts Chronologically" and I thought that might the right thing to do. But in the tooltip when you hover over it says it could affect performance.
From your post I'll take it that I shouldn't use it.
Thanks
Jeremy
