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10-21-2009, 06:37 PM
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Master Techie Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: In Gov't Regulated Cubical Posts: 2,752
|  Re: preventing necroposting: auto close after 3 months
Maybe a bit longer, as some mods and RMAs can take forever.
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10-21-2009, 07:56 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,657
| Re: preventing necroposting: auto close after 3 months
Yes this is already under consideration.
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10-24-2009, 05:56 PM
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World record q9300 owner Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Suffolk, VA Posts: 3,992
| Re: preventing necroposting: auto close after 3 months
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Originally Posted by patonb  Maybe a bit longer, as some mods and RMAs can take forever. | yes, 3 months is a little short. more like 6 or 7 months would be good. | |
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10-24-2009, 06:17 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The South Posts: 19,903
| Re: preventing necroposting: auto close after 3 months
The thread originator could request that the thread be opened back up. Currently, we use a three month cutoff that exclude stickies, threads indexed by a sticky index, and the original poster pulling the thread back up.
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10-24-2009, 06:49 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: C:\Windows\System32 Posts: 25,657
| Re: preventing necroposting: auto close after 3 months
6 or 7 MONTHS? Sorry but no. There is No RMA out there that should ever take that long. There is no reason to dig up a thread from that long ago. Heck we barely keep people on this site week to week, let alone dig up a topic from 7 months ago and expect the OP to come back and respond.
The longest i see for RMA's is 4-6 weeks which falls way within the 3 Months period of 12 weeks. That would be double the length of any good RMA. At that point if it went 3 months and you still havent gotten your parts back, i would be calling for a refund.
As Trotter said, the OP can ask for it to be opened and get it going again.
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10-24-2009, 10:59 PM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 4,539
| Re: preventing necroposting: auto close after 3 months
I see no reason for going beyond 3 months, personally. In computer terms that's ancient history anyways.
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10-24-2009, 11:24 PM
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True Techie Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Rigil Kentaurus Posts: 184
| Re: preventing necroposting: auto close after 3 months
Compromise: four to five months cut off date 
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10-25-2009, 12:35 AM
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Wizard Techie Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 4,539
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Originally Posted by iFargle Compromise: four to five months cut off date | What compromise? I've seen a lot of other forums where threads close after 30 days, or whenever a mod decides they're no longer active (literally days or even hours after the final post). Giving a thread 3 months is pretty generous as it is. | |
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10-25-2009, 12:36 AM
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True Techie Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Rigil Kentaurus Posts: 184
| Re: preventing necroposting: auto close after 3 months
Well, someone had proposed 6-7 months, while someone else proposed 3 months. I just stayed right in the middle 
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