in reply to Do we ever want to freeze threads?

Just one question: Why?

You seem to be wanting to discuss something with no particular reason for doing it. If you actually had a good one, to do or not do it, this thread might have a purpose in life ;)

For the record, I see no reason why we should. (Making old nodes uneditable would be more useful, IMO, I would guess 99% of fiddling goes on with hours/days of creation)

C.

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Re^2: Do we ever want to freeze threads?
by talexb (Chancellor) on Dec 30, 2004 at 21:14 UTC
      Just one question: Why?

    Because I thought it might be useful to prevent someone replying to a node that's several years old. That's because it's very unlikely that anyone's going to see it, and in any case it's probably in the wrong place.

    However this seems like a pretty unpopular idea .. that's fine, I just thought I'd suggest it. Just trying to be creative here.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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      Because I thought it might be useful to prevent someone replying to a node that's several years old.

      There's nothing wrong with replying to a node that's several years old. Why is a discussion over hashes from two years ago no longer valid today?

      That's because it's very unlikely that anyone's going to see it, and in any case it's probably in the wrong place.

      Of course someone will see it. Discussions are valuable beyond any supposed expiration date. Many people use Search (or even Google) to find very useful old discussions on Perlmonks that help them with current situations. Any contributions made to such threads from the date of creation onward are of value - including the contributions of the person who found it useful.

      This isn't Slashdot. Discussions here are valid without end. There is no reason, in 2005, to be discussing how unfair it is that Kevin Mitnick is still being held in prison in an article posted to Slashdot in 2001. However, an in-depth discussion on map/join from 2003 is certainly worthwhile today. That is the major difference.
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