Replying to 55 day old posts

[MitchellO]

Hey,

Why can a post be made to a 55 day old post in the quick reply but not in the advanced editor?

Cheers

[Mike]

The 55 day limit is a modification that I added to the original forum script and that's just the way it's been coded

[MitchellO]

No worries

[BigMick]

I think I just ran into this:

This Thread is more than 466 days old, you can't reply to it.

Okay, mine is a little older than 55 days, but what gives with that? What's the reasoning behind the restriction?

[Mike]

Originally Posted by BigMick

This Thread is more than 466 days old, you can't reply to it.

Actually you can reply using the quick edit box - but you first have to check a box to ensure you are aware it's an old thread.

Originally Posted by BigMick

What's the reasoning behind the restriction?

Before I applied the restriction, we were constantly seeing new people add questions to the end of old threads regardless of how relevant or how old they may have been.

Sometimes the thread had been dead for a year but they didn't seem to notice and just tacked their question onto the end of it.

The restriction is to try and encourage people with a problem to start a new thread relevant to them and their configuration rather than adding "I have the same problem - please help" to the end of an 8 page thread that nobody has been near for months.