if it’s so fckin common it’s worth a downvote especially
does lemmy have this
As far as I know Lemmy and kbin do not automatically lock threads after a certain amount of time.
I think the whole online culture against necro posting is something that should not be encouraged.
Especially when it is the first thing that comes up in google and the only reply is to google it.The problem is that those old posts may contain outdated information or outright misinformation. And it is unlikely any of the involved parties are around to continue the conversation.
Also, long living threads are very difficult to search through for the same reasons.
hmm, i could see a sort of archive system where you save the post as is, but then comment on that in a new thread. could even do that multiple times as updates are needed.
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For Microsoft related they should lock anything older than 2 days.
Lemmy doesn’t automatically lock old threads AFAIK, for now.
So, I could reply to this 3 year old holiday thread, and lemmy.ml accounts probably could too. Lemmy.world accounts probably can’t view many threads older than June 2023, since they wouldn’t have been federated over and it was created at around that time.
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Are reposts really unwanted though?
A repost could reach an end user that didn’t get to see the original post.
I’d honestly say making a new thread for an already discussed topic is better than reviving a 10 year old one. There’s no way of knowing any of the people involved in the previous discussion are even still around.
And depending on the topic 10 years may be so old that the issues or answers that were brought forth aren’t actually relevant anymore, and would just lead to confusion.
Would be cool if users could tag the threads as related, so references to the old are close by. Would help in technical discussions.
