Can we disable necroposting on this forum?

[dfrecore]

With all that has changed in the past few / several months (TESU cornerstone, TESU's rejection of Shmoop credits, addition of the new Study.com courses, etc), a lot of (or most?) information that was really good -- no longer is.

It's easy to get tripped up on the date if someone necroposts and others follow, especially new people that aren't considering the possibility of old threads. I don't think any posts should be deleted, but a lot of us have probably gotten tripped up a few times when old posts get revived. And then people reply to your necropost to let you know that you're necroposting and the dead thread animates again!

I don't know if there's an option to retire specific threads as opposed to blanket retiring all posts of a certain age. I think it's more important in a forum like this because a one-course mistake could cost someone a lot of time and or money if they're trying to complete things within deadlines, to avoid recurring fees, etc.

It's not a major issue, so if most people want to keep open old threads, then it might make sense to just keep it the way it is.

I'm guessing people were talking about closing old threads so as not to allow new posts to them, not deleting them or making them unaccessible.

There are ALWAYS changes to things, it's pretty constant.  So that's not really a great reason to make a change.

But, I also think that locking down posts older than maybe 3-5 years would be ideal.  If people want to ask questions, they can always create a new post.  But having them ask questions on 5, 8, 10yo posts is kind of nuts.