Returning old threads

Apparently, some people have noticed that if they go back and remove a post from an old thread, the entire thread gets reposted in its associated forum. It's still marked as old, so no one can post, but it is still disconcerting to see these old threads popping up out of the mists.

Is there a way to prevent this in the code? Or would it be a difficult fix?

I'm surprised that once this got out, there were not tons of threads coming back. I mean people love to do things "just 'cause" they can.

It isn't people removing their own posts, it looks like the mods are reading through old threads and deleting some posts which has caused them to appear at the top of the page for some reason. Look at the 4 threads which bumped their way to the top of the general forum, they only thing they have in common is posts removed by a mod.

Maybe some new words have been added to the robomod list.

The post that was quoted here has been removed

Going back and "retro-modding" seems a horrible idea which borders on censorship and trying to shoehorn the entire history of posts into what is acceptable now is not the best solution. Indeed, it is a solution in search of a problem.

In fact if that is a moderator thing maybe one should look for the principles of moderating.

@Suzianne

Finally got to the bottom of this. It shouldn't be a problem anymore - a bug introduced around the time that the forum update was introduced where forum posts were not removed outright from a thread.

The post that was quoted here has been removed

Now working (it always was working, but was set to be too lenient for reasons I can't even remember!)

@russ said
@Suzianne

Finally got to the bottom of this. It shouldn't be a problem anymore - a bug introduced around the time that the forum update was introduced where forum posts were not removed outright from a thread.

Aha. So we won't be seeing resurrected old threads any more?

That's just nothing less than awesome. Thank you, Russ.

@suzianne said
That's just nothing less than awesome. Thank you, Russ.

As awesome as that maybe, I can't celebrate, as I broke it in the first place. 😳

@russ said
As awesome as that maybe, I can't celebrate, as I broke it in the first place. 😳

We still have 5 old threads showing up on the 1rst page of the General Forum.

-VR

@very-rusty said
We still have 5 old threads showing up on the 1rst page of the General Forum.

-VR

Those had been popped before the fix...

@very-rusty said
We still have 5 old threads showing up on the 1rst page of the General Forum.

-VR

I think the general forum is definitely not politically correct.
Where are all the corporals and privates supposed to post?

@venda said
I think the general forum is definitely not politically correct.
Where are all the corporals and privates supposed to post?

Was that a time joke? 😉

-VR