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[trackrat]

So the answer to where you came across these topics is you were unknowingly replying to discussions in the “Similar Threads” below currently threads?

i never saw the dates on the posts until you brought them to my attention

 

[kentucky gardener]

i never saw the dates on the posts until you brought them to my attent

 

[kentucky gardener]

i never saw the dates on the posts until you brought them to my attention

lets see if you rreal what is the green tractors and the red tractors

 

[stevieb49829]

I’ve got a pile of old posts. I’ve gone back and reused them over the last 30 years. I’ve even boughten other people’s old posts.

Steel or wooden?

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Considering the equipment I usually ask questions about is pushing 70 years old, good information shared 2 decades ago is still good info. I'm not here for the cutting edge technology, I'm looking for what the previous generations learned the hard way that never got wrote down anywhere else.

But I do think it's fair to have some kind of obvious marker system for discussions that are older than a certain age, whether it be 30, 60, 90 days etc.

Yes, it's still good info and it's right there for your use. Like you say though, there's nothing new to add, so there is absolutely no reason to respond to an old thread.

Leaving old threads open isn't going to stop people from asking the same questions time and again in new threads. We get "my tractor won't start," "where do I find this rare, obscure, and long-out-of-production part," and "what oil do I use" threads here DAILY. There isn't much new that gets discussed here, if anything. One thing discussing it over and over does, though, is keep it fresh in our minds. We'd tend to forget such knowledge if we just told people to search for their answers.

Many forums will automatically lock a thread after a year of inactivity. I think that's a fair amount of time. Management on this site has already stated, repeatedly, that they do not agree with this, so people will continue "necroposting" and there's nothing we can do about it.

Admittedly it is low on the priority list of things to "worry" about, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be discussed.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

I tell ya whats funny, I saw one of those old a while back and a poster, Ill keep his name anonymous, repsonded both before and after with completely different information.

I'd love to see the thread. It was probably me.

One thing though, sometimes new information does come to light. Years ago I never would have recommended a multi-weight, or a diesel engine oil for an old gasoline tractor. Facts and a good logical rationalization changed my opinion on the matter. Now I say, Rotella away! I said there wasn't much new, not that there was NEVER anything new...

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

That is truly a first world problem of zero consequence. Ignore what does not interest you.

How do you know it doesn't interest you until after you've read it? You can't unread something and get the time you spent reading it back.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

The silly things grown people worry about, I do not understand most of it.

Who's worried? Don't you observe the world around you and think about how it can be improved?

 

[Geo-TH,In]

How come so many old posts are showing up lately. Some that are ten years and older. And guys are commenting on them or adding imfo...

If you notice most of the old posts come alive by a NEW MEMBER.
Each to their own. I look at the date first. IMO old posts should be read only and closed for new replies.. I can't see how the new replies have any value to the original poster.
If you want to read old books fine. What if the rest of us don't want to reay yesterday's newspapers? We better get used to looking at the date before we read.

 

[GChief]

Who's worried? Don't you observe the world around you and think about how it can be improved?

Only things I can control or effect

There is a reason "Don' t stress what you cannot control" is a thing

Plus I am totally cool with necromancers visiting threads.

 

[used red MN]

lets see if you rreal what is the green tractors and the red tractors

I’m sure he’s real, in one of replies he told a story about being displaced off his land when a reservoir was built. I don’t think many “robots” could make that up.

 

[kentucky gardener]

Yea I don’t think a robot could apologize

 

[ss55]

These old posts should be archived after a length of time ! Posting not allowed.

Do you mean accessible, but locked to adding any new posts?

 

[Fixingfarmer]

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I suppose I was being too careful and not using my learning…. It’s more like “From the land of almost right we have a suggested thread”

 

[Ray,IN]

An RVing forum irv2.com has their software set so when you click on reply, a warning box appears telling you, you are about to reply to an old thread at least 180 days old since the last reply.
The only thing that bugs me is a person asks a question, then never posts their results of all the advice.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Maybe this has been hit upon in this thread already but I think I see the problem. When you go to make a new post, the system automatically throws up a section titled "Is this already being discussed?" listing several threads that may or may not be related.

The current system actually ENCOURAGES necroposting.

So that is "Why?"

 

[trackrat]

I figured trackrat was just a data harvesting bot.

Mike

sorry i am 6ft tall 365lbs and 73 years old i am NOT a robot

 

[kentucky gardener]

sorry i am 6ft tall 365lbs and 73 years old i am NOT a robot

I’m sorry I said you were. p forgive me

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

sorry i am 6ft tall 365lbs and 73 years old i am NOT a robot

That's EXACTLY what a robot would say!

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

That's EXACTLY what a robot would say!

Ya beat me to it!

Mike