Change to inactive topic expiry

[fiddlingfrog]

@AcerPlatanoides

I don’t think the author of this topic can be assumed to want to know that I started an unrelated conversation about etymology or whatever.

Conversely, if after 30 days you replied with some observations on how inactive topic locking was causing slower conversations to splinter, @orenwolf would probably be interested to hear that, but under the current notification scheme he never would.

[anon68952647]

@fiddlingfrog

Conversely, if after 30 days you replied with some observations on how inactive topic locking was causing slower conversations to splinter, @orenwofl would probably be interested to hear that, but under the current notification scheme he never would.

well those are different goalposts than you proposed in the comment I was responding to, i think. . You had said

@fiddlingfrog

I meant both

and now you seem to mean one.

¯\_(ツ)__/¯

I think whoever you respond to should get a notification. But not the originator of the old conversation. I can’t state with any authority what other people want, YMMV.

[fiddlingfrog]

@AcerPlatanoides

well those are different goalposts than you proposed in the comment I was responding to, i think.

Nope. I said both as in both

@fiddlingfrog

The topic owner should get a notification of a reply to the thread because it’s a reply.

and

@fiddlingfrog

users who are watching the topic either because they participated in the thread or because they explicitly decided to watch it should see the original topic bumped up on their Unread page

While some topic owners would be uninterested in tangents arising from their old conversations, others may still be interested in hearing fresh, connected, and relevant ideas, particularly as the only way to continue a conversation that paused for thirty days is to split the reply into a new topic.

Edit:
I do like @smulder’s idea above. It would solve the spam problems that initiated this conversation without introducing the fragmenting problems introduced by replying as new topics.

@smulder

It seems like the minimum change from the old status quo that would address the stated problem would just be to prevent TL0 and TL1 users from posting in topics which have been dormant for a month or more …

[anon61221983]

Shouldn’t this have a “meh” option?

[ETA] I see that @nimelennar agrees it needs a “meh” option.

[anon68952647]

@fiddlingfrog

While some topic owners would be uninterested in tangents arising from their old conversations, others may still be interested

some and others are less absolute and more relatable terms than you initially used. I cant disagree with what you’ve now said.

@fiddlingfrog

particularly as the only way to continue a conversation that paused for thirty days is to split the reply into a new topic.

or ask them to reopen it, so not ‘only’.

anyhow, thanks for the clarification.

[ficuswhisperer]

Yeah, perhaps. I did this internationally, though. I figure those that don’t care won’t respond.