Topic: [Feature] necroposting disclaimer

Posted under Site Bug Reports & Feature Requests

Requested feature overview description.
after a certain amount of time with no new replies; a forum topic will automatically display a disclaimer discouraging further replying and therefore necroposting

unresolved tag relation requests and stickied topics would have a blanket exception to this just given the nature of these topics, and i could also see a benefit to allow admins and select other member levels will be able to whitelist topics from getting this disclaimer to encourage conversations where long breaks in relevancy might be expected in an otherwise relevant topic (e.g. topic #33516 )

this is inspired by a feature of doomworld.com, which after an extensive time with no new replies a topic will get a banner on the top and bottom of the page discouraging further replies

Why would it be useful?
i've been seeing a surge of necroposting as of recent, and it's definitely a case of people who might just be new to forums as a format and not even know what necroposting is before doing it, so having a disclaimer on relevant topics would cut back on it

What part(s) of the site page(s) are affected?
/forum_topics/

dripen_arn said:
Requested feature overview description.
after a certain amount of time with no new replies; a forum topic will automatically display a disclaimer discouraging further replying and therefore necroposting

unresolved tag relation requests and stickied topics would have a blanket exception to this just given the nature of these topics, and i could also see a benefit to allow admins and select other member levels will be able to whitelist topics from getting this disclaimer to encourage conversations where long breaks in relevancy might be expected in an otherwise relevant topic (e.g. topic #33516 )

this is inspired by a feature of doomworld.com, which after an extensive time with no new replies a topic will get a banner on the top and bottom of the page discouraging further replies

Why would it be useful?
i've been seeing a surge of necroposting as of recent, and it's definitely a case of people who might just be new to forums as a format and not even know what necroposting is before doing it, so having a disclaimer on relevant topics would cut back on it

What part(s) of the site page(s) are affected?
/forum_topics/

I''ve also seen the same topic be created years later then old one have to be linked to. XD

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