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simonjary
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Posted October 3, 2011 at 12:02PM

In a further bid to make these forums less prone to spam bot attack we're going to look at locking older threads.

Currently a spam bot can reactivate an old thread, which pushes it to the top of that forum list, where it becomes live again despite its age and resolved status.

Also, old threads in forums such as Consumerwatch sometimes get hijacked, rather than new threads being opened for new problems.

Locking older threads should stop that.

Regards,

Simon Publisher, PC Advisor

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BT

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Posted October 3, 2011 at 5:20PM

Good idea.

I reckon a couple of months should be adequate.

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Aitchbee

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Posted October 3, 2011 at 5:25PM

This thread is starting to sound like the 'Council of Elrond' while the 'ring-bearer' is away on holiday...asleep.

Where, the Council of Elrond are 'the respected forum members'

and the ring-bearer is the forum editor.

Refering to 'The Lord Of The Threads' ...of course...Threadseses.

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morddwyd

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Posted October 3, 2011 at 5:48PM

Six months for me.

Not being able to post for four weeks is not unusual for many people.

Most of the Lazarus threads are at least eight months old, and in many cases much older.

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Quickbeam

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Posted October 3, 2011 at 6:00PM

Lazarus should be used to being resurrected after all this time.

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woodchip

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Posted October 3, 2011 at 6:00PM

Three Months for me

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woodchip

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Posted October 3, 2011 at 6:03PM

the one that may suffer from this is Consumer Watch Forum, It may need to be longer on that due in part to tooing and froing With Lost PC's and Warranty's

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Quickbeam

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Posted October 3, 2011 at 6:45PM

"Obviously as this is a new idea it looks like trial and error until they get it right."

Which is why 3 months is a good starting point. If you go straight to 4 weeks, we'll all be complaining bitterly within a very short time, PCA should know how fickle we can be over nothing at all, we've only just stopped moaning about the site changes... well almost!

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lotvic

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Posted October 3, 2011 at 7:03PM

Quickbeam, that's a very good point

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morddwyd

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Posted October 3, 2011 at 7:56PM

"we've only just stopped moaning about the site changes."

Speak for yourself!

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wee eddie

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Posted October 3, 2011 at 8:33PM

Earlier in the day I roughed out a posting and then decided to hold my fire and see what others thought. I'm glad I did.

I am of exactly the opposite opinion to the rest of you.

I would, initially, lock all threads started more than 1 year ago. The proviso being that I would review the situation in several months time, with the intention of deciding if a 6 monthly Life Cycle might be more appropriate.

My own feeling is that a 13 week Life Cycle is too short, even though most Threads have run their course by that time.

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