Have a suggestion for a new feature?

[Moshalas]

I'd like to see some sort of anti-bumping system to prevent old threads from suddenly appearing as "new" ones. This could be done by simply causing a thread to become bump-proof after a certain amount of time has elapsed since creation. I've seen this idea used on some boards, but it's pretty rare these days. I don't know if it's going to be easy to implement.

Many of you have problems with "necromancy", the act of reviving old threads on a forum. It works by using a loophole of allowing old threads to be bumped, which is easily abused for baiting other users into rage. The method I describe above will help to prevent aged threads from climbing back up, while keeping the board fresh and up to date with new content.

[Pesco]

Old threads get auto-locked.

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I'd like to see some sort of anti-bumping system to prevent old threads from suddenly appearing as "new" ones. This could be done by simply causing a thread to become bump-proof after a certain amount of time has elapsed since creation. I've seen this idea used on some boards, but it's pretty rare these days. I don't know if it's going to be easy to implement.

Many of you have problems with "necromancy", the act of reviving old threads on a forum. It works by using a loophole of allowing old threads to be bumped, which is easily abused for baiting other users into rage. The method I describe above will help to prevent aged threads from climbing back up, while keeping the board fresh and up to date with new content.

We solved this a while ago.
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,9787.html

[KimikoMuffin]

Something I've seen on other messageboards: a "block spoiler," which, instead of just coloring the text to be the same color as the background, actually makes it disappear completely into a "show/hide" javascript-button. (Like so.) Could do things like hide walls of text, or spoiler images in a way that doesn't expose the URL. I can understand if it's too much work for not much gain, though.

[Tengukami]

I wholly support this. The spoiler tag is useless when I'm mobile phone browsing.

[KimikoMuffin]

That part hadn't actually occurred to me. Partly because I generally don't think of mobile phones as being able to run Javascript to begin with ... And I meant as an alternate, not a replacement, kinda thing.

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I nixed this when it came up a while ago because it'd be infinitely more effort for me to implement such a thing than to just find a mobile compatible spoilering method.

[KimikoMuffin]

Kay.