101015-thread-necro-prevention-suggestion

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I could not determine an appropriate place to post this:
 
Since the necro'ing of old threads has been an issue lately, I suggest auto-locking threads that have not been replied to after a set period of time.	
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			Necro-ing is arguably better than starting a new thread on the same subject and potentially rehashing a bunch of old arguments. Just IMO.	
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Necro-ing is arguably better than starting a new thread on the same subject and potentially rehashing a bunch of old arguments. Just IMO.
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			I'm not sure what your point is. "People do it wrong most of the time anyway, so we should eliminate their ability to do it right"? :p	
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"archiving"(essentially an auto lock as some forums have it) is the best way with the current setup. I don't get upset about it, because theres 2 ways people easily necro threads:
1) people are actually using the serach feature, which is a good thing
2) people are seeing the related topics based on tags at the bottom of the current thread they're viewing.
 
Both of the above are great, because the forum has ways of finding topics that people wish to discuss and it shows that they're actually using those features.
 
However people tend not to notice the "Posted X, ##:## a/p.m.", which admittedly is a tad hard to see and can easily be missed by people(though my eyesight isn't that good to begin with)	
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*snip*
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I'm not sure what your point is. "People do it wrong most of the time anyway, so we should eliminate their ability to do it right"? :P
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Necro-ing is arguably better than starting a new thread on the same subject and potentially rehashing a bunch of old arguments. Just IMO.
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Are you describing the way the forums function currently, or are you in favor of my suggestion? (Being serious, really couldn't discern)
 
Right before I posted this I saw another thread necro get locked - would the moderators not desire one less thing to moderate?
 
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