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Forum Name: The Forum Itself
Topic ID: 16
Message ID: 11
#11, RE: Megathread Prevention
Posted by Star Ranger4 on Nov-20-01 at 09:16 PM
In response to message #5
>>>As it is, I'm always a little reluctant to step in and lock things
>>>because I fear people will go, "Hmm, here's a thought - oh, but this
>>>thread's locked, so I guess I won't bother posting it."
>>
>>Well, if the feature you describe were properly implemented, you could
>>do a "reply to new thread" to an article in a locked thread. You just
>>couldn't reply within the thread.
>
>... I know.
>
>Hence "as it is". Right now that's not possible, and so I fear people
>won't bother going the long way around to break new comments out of
>old threads; they'll just let the new comments die unposted.
>

indeed.... its taken me a while to think through how to break a new post out from an old thread... I think a reply to new would be an excellent addtion to the board. If Zoner himself can't do it, maybe we can talk the DCI board people into making it a new standard feature??


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