1. Thread etiquette
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Mar 26, 2014
- 1166 views
Forked from Re: Cereal - some serious thread fu
So it can't be fixed so that the thread doesn't show posts from 5-14 years ago, even though they're totally unrelated to the thread subject as a whole? How did those old posts get attached to that thread?
It seems like a pretty major glitch in the forum software.
The old stuff shows if you view the posts in threaded view. Only the new stuff shows up if you view in post view, which is my default, and I would never have noticed except that it was pointed out.
Hopefully, people can behave themselves and just be sensible about creating new threads, or at least forking old threads that wander off. We may have to ban bad actors, but I don't think we're there yet.
Matt
2. Re: Thread etiquette
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Mar 26, 2014
- 1173 views
So it can't be fixed so that the thread doesn't show posts from 5-14 years ago, even though they're totally unrelated to the thread subject as a whole?
It can be fixed manually. Someone with db access has to go in and manually reset some numbers to detach the new posts from the older ones.
I've done this before, and I'll fix this thread too.
How did those old posts get attached to that thread?
EUWX loaded up an old thread and posted a reply to it instead of posting a new topic.
It seems like a pretty major glitch in the forum software.
I suppose.
3. Re: Thread etiquette
- Posted by jaygade Mar 26, 2014
- 1168 views
EUWX loaded up an old thread and posted a reply to it instead of posting a new topic.
I didn't realize that he had replied to an old thread. It looked like a bunch of unrelated threads all globbed into one monstrosity which is why I thought it was a glitch.
The old stuff shows if you view the posts in threaded view. Only the new stuff shows up if you view in post view, which is my default, and I would never have noticed except that it was pointed out.
Hopefully, people can behave themselves and just be sensible about creating new threads, or at least forking old threads that wander off. We may have to ban bad actors, but I don't think we're there yet.
Matt
Interesting -- I forgot that you could switch between the two I've been using the threaded view for so long.
