Old thread not closed to comments? April 22, 2007 12:18 PM   Subscribe

I was looking at an old AskMe of mine from 2006, and it doesn't appear to be closed to comments (though I didn't try posting a reply.) The usual "this thread is closed" isn't there - instead, it's the normal reply box. Bug?
posted by IndigoRain to Bugs at 12:18 PM (15 comments total)

I'm pretty sure AskMe threads are closed after a year...yours has three months to go...
posted by jourman2 at 12:30 PM on April 22, 2007


http://faq.metafilter.com/#82
posted by metaname at 12:31 PM on April 22, 2007


Did this change recently? I thought they closed after a month.
posted by IndigoRain at 12:37 PM on April 22, 2007


It changed a while back.
posted by cortex (staff) at 12:40 PM on April 22, 2007


Not that recently (2005)
posted by jourman2 at 12:42 PM on April 22, 2007


The idea was to give the OP the opportunity to post a followup telling how it came out. Few do, but that was the idea.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 12:59 PM on April 22, 2007


Thanks. Feel free to close.
posted by IndigoRain at 3:07 PM on April 22, 2007


I think it would be neat if more time was allowed for the original AskMe poster to respond to the thread, but close it to general response. On second thought, how would that work for anonymous posters?
posted by BrotherCaine at 3:07 PM on April 22, 2007


I think it would be neat if more time was allowed for the original AskMe poster to respond to the thread, but close it to general response. On second thought, how would that work for anonymous posters?

Aside from it being neat, why would that be a good idea? Are you talking about extending the Poster's response time beyond a year, or shortening everyone else's response time to something less than a year? Plenty of times I've had something to contribute to an old, perhaps unanswered thread. The year limit is even frustrating sometimes, like when I run across something unanswered that I could contribute to. What good does shortening the response time bring? And why distinguish between Poster and Answerer in this respect?
To the second part of your comment, one gives up a couple of the perks of AskMe when asking anonymously.
posted by carsonb at 4:34 PM on April 22, 2007


Did you do any cool stuff with your phone?
posted by trip and a half at 7:38 PM on April 22, 2007


I was talking about extending the original poster's response indefinitely. When I give advice, or even when I don't, I like to hear how things turn out.
posted by BrotherCaine at 1:54 AM on April 23, 2007


Not really, except cellfire. Phone cam's not good enough for the scanner thing (or flickr for that matter), and I don't have enough nearby friends interested in using Dodgeball. I do use Google a lot though.
posted by IndigoRain at 3:06 PM on April 23, 2007


One year is good. I like to zip back 11 months when things are slow and see if I missed any questions and solicit how things turned out.
posted by Mitheral at 3:43 PM on April 23, 2007


Why close them at all?
posted by strawberryviagra at 4:33 PM on April 24, 2007


Reduces hits on the DB and cuts down the effect of cult threads.
posted by Mitheral at 5:23 PM on April 24, 2007


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