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Subject: Would you like the ability to unlock old/archived threads in groups?
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Posted by: DEATHPIMP72
Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

The title pretty much says it all. You know the threads I mean -- the ones with the grayed-out monkey icon next to them to signify the dust that the poor thread has collected over the months that nobody has posted in or edited them. I have been trying to unlock old threads in The Guide (including basic threads like forum rules and threads-of-interest), and the old glitch that used to work on the previous version of the site does not work anymore (damn you and your perfectionist bug fixes, web team!!).

It'd be nice for group admins and moderators to have the ability to unlock threads that nobody has posted in for awhile. In groups, this idea has much greater utility than in the public forums.

Thoughts or opinions?

[Edited on 02.22.2008 2:05 PM PST]

  • 02.22.2008 2:02 PM PDT
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Seriously though, why unlock old threads? :)

  • 02.22.2008 2:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: DEATHPIMP72
Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

Posted by: Qbix89
Seriously though, why unlock old threads? :)
Lots of reasons! For example, let's say you create a thread of forum rules and don't touch it for several months. Then you want to change or add a rule.

Or, for another example, take the introduce-yourself threads that many groups have. If nobody posts in an introduce-yourself thread for three months, it becomes locked. But it would be nice to be able to unlock it so that new members could introduce themselves in case there are future membership surges.

That kinda thing.

  • 02.22.2008 2:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Qbix89
Seriously though, why unlock old threads? :)
Lots of reasons! For example, let's say you create a thread of forum rules and don't touch it for several months. Then you want to change or add a rule.

Or, for another example, take the introduce-yourself threads that many groups have. If nobody posts in an introduce-yourself thread for three months, it becomes locked. But it would be nice to be able to unlock it so that new members could introduce themselves in case there are future membership surges.

That kinda thing.


Well seeing as it's group threads I would expect that something like rules would be stickied within the group and not be archived.

  • 02.22.2008 2:22 PM PDT

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My gamertag is SHADOWRIDERJP.

Sticky-->unlock-->reply-->unpin

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[group]167741|Diner|Where's the food?[/group]

Posted by: GHOSTRIDERJP
Sticky-->unlock-->reply-->unpin

Unless that's the old bug he referred to. :/

  • 02.22.2008 2:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: GHOSTRIDERJP
Sticky-->unlock-->reply-->unpin

Unless that's the old bug he referred to. :/
My bad, I was premature, I can't get it to work.

I didn't realise that it wasn't possible to do so, but now I do I's quite like to be able to ;)

[Edited on 02.22.2008 2:45 PM PST]

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Posted by: DEATHPIMP72
Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

Posted by: aku
Posted by: GHOSTRIDERJP
Sticky-->unlock-->reply-->unpin

Unless that's the old bug he referred to. :/
It is. I tried to do it for a half hour and it looks like it's been fixed.

At any rate, even if the bug had not been fixed, wouldn't it be nice to actually be able to just hit "unlock" and have the thread open again (for at least three months) without having to go through the rigamarole of exploiting the bug?

LATE EDIT: The bug just worked for me, so it is still a possible workaround. But I'd still like the ability to just unlock it. :-)

Posted by: AznboIP
Well seeing as it's group threads I would expect that something like rules would be stickied within the group and not be archived.

I think you're missing the point.... I want to unlock old threads, regardless of whether they are stickied.

[Edited on 02.22.2008 3:15 PM PST]

  • 02.22.2008 2:50 PM PDT

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I don't see any reason why not. It's kind of stupid that it's like that in the first place.

  • 02.22.2008 2:54 PM PDT
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Meh, it's not a big deal to me.

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[group]167741|Diner|Where's the food?[/group]

In any case, I do think it would be good to be able to unlock old threads. I can't see any harm out of it, since this feature wouldn't really require any more trust than the ability to lock threads.

  • 02.22.2008 2:58 PM PDT

I don't see why we can't unlock them.

  • 02.22.2008 2:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ghandi 2
I don't see any reason why not. It's kind of stupid that it's like that in the first place.

Maybe he just use the same system for that as he does in the public forums. Time saving =)
IMO it should be altered though.

  • 02.22.2008 3:47 PM PDT
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You should put this idea in Acronos's "bugie.net ideas thread'. I don't know were it is, probably in the stickies or how topics.

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Posted by: DEATHPIMP72
Anyone but Foman. He smells like cheese.

Posted by: Vick Sr
You should put this idea in Acronos's "bugie.net ideas thread'. I don't know were it is, probably in the stickies or how topics.
Yah, well that thread is for, as Achronos put it, "big ticket" items. This is just a little thing, so I don't think it's quite approprite for that thread. But maybe I'll edit it into my first post in there as well. Thanks for the suggestion.

  • 02.22.2008 5:51 PM PDT
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This would be a huge utility for group owners everywhere. I say an unlocking feature should be implemented.

  • 02.22.2008 6:12 PM PDT

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Nah..I oh too often dwell there looking at the posts before the spamfests...When the forums were a stable place...(well...sort of...)

  • 02.22.2008 9:30 PM PDT
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I agree for unlocking forums.

  • 02.22.2008 10:32 PM PDT

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If you pin your thread, then unlock it you should be able to post in it again

  • 02.22.2008 10:46 PM PDT