Err, I found this confusing, troubling and just downright annoying:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...5&postcount=47
So, I was reading through that thread, saw a completely incorrect point I just HAD to correct, then learned that the thread was locked for, uh, being old and then being posted in again.
Now, sure, it makes sense to quietly point out "hey, this thread is old" (and yet more sense to give the date of each post more prominence in the theme). However, I don't understand locking it at all. One minute we have people merging threads together, in a pattern reminiscent of obsessive compulsive disorder, when they share a few common keywords. (Which, by the way, ruins discussions; it makes them generic, unfocused, monolithically huge and confusing).
...Then, then the next moment, a thread gets locked and the OP told to start another, because the originally quite short locked thread is eight months old. No link to the new thread, no concern for the fact that the thread was "necromanced" with an honest question that now nobody can answer in the open without creating confusion.
FURTHER, if I recall correctly this forum encourages keeping specific topics to single threads to the point that it was once actively encouraged by an automatic search feature, and people often say "use the search feature!" when others ask questions which have been answered.
How are people supposed to post in the cafe?
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