Originally Posted by
TeaEarleGreyHot
Seems to me that really good board management software would permit an administrator to "reverse-thumbtack" thread, so that it (1) persists at the bottom of a board, and optionally (2) is immune to flagging as "new" or "unread" by boardmembers. Locking a thread in conjunction with #1 would be a good thing, too, when such ancient stuff is resurrected.
Actually, I've bumped really old threads before. I did one on the Priority Club board a few weeks ago about the value of their points since I know little about the program and am about to earn 160,000 of their points.
The last really good thread about valuation - at least the one that turned up in search - was about five years old. I thought "Should I bump it or start a new one?" The irony was that the guy who started this thread five years ago got barked at for not searching. His was the only thread *I* found when I did, in fact, search. (Maybe older stuff was archived? Maybe my search terms weren't very good?)
Anyway, a little bumpage here and there isn't bad...except for the occasional OMNI prankster who decides to bump 100 threads. That's lame.
Besides, I liked the TWA reset.