Would it be possible to have topics Auto-close after a period of inactivity. And give users with follow-up questions an easy way to start a new topic that references the old one? It would be just like a “Locked” topic, but the Reply buttons, would create a new topic and auto insert a link to the o…

I am always so conflicted about posting to an old topic. I’m with you, Calvin, it’s nice to keep it all together. But yeah, does it really notify EVERYONE ever involved in the thread? I feel so guilty to do that. I tend to do so sparingly. Is that part necessary, notifying everyone? I don’t really …

[image] JasonMcD: Is that part necessary, notifying everyone? Maybe have a timer on a topic change the the “Watching / Tracking / Normal / Muted” setting to “Normal” after a period of time that you’ve not looked at the thread. [image] If someone replies to one of your posts, you’d get a no…

I meant this: [image] I take that to be independent of the “Watching” setting.

I’ve become blind to the “suggestions” that appear over the preview area. My justification for blindly ignoring it, is that I feel that I did a pretty thorough search before deciding to start a new thread.

@ckrusen I think this will end up creating multiple threads to cover the same topic. We actually prefer to see the original threads continued. As for unsubscribing to updates after a period of time, that could be helpful.

[image] ckrusen: My justification for blindly ignoring it, is that I feel that I did a pretty thorough search before deciding to start a new thread. The stuff that shows up on the right is not just about the current topic, it looks at tone and tells you to stop being so whiny/mean (seriously …

If everybody was upgrading at the same time I could see closing out topics dealing with older versions, but as we are all over the map, then there may be updates from people who are on the same version as the OP was.

Here’s my thoughts (aka “Spending Someone Else’s Time Like It’s Free”): If the OP does not accept a solution, then email them after a while to remind them to flag a solution or provide more details. If the post stays quiet too long, then mark the post as closed and unsolved. If a user wants to po…

[image] Jason_Woods: If the OP does not accept a solution, then email them after a while to remind them to flag a solution or provide more details. This. I would love to know if a topic is resolved in a search. Quite a few of them are, but having a mechanism to remind people to mark somethi…

[image] Doug.C: I would love to know if a topic is resolved in a search It does tell you if its resolved on the search. (Assuming they mark it) [image]

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JasonMcD (Jason McDermott) October 30, 2020, 11:24am 14

This is covered in another thread.

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