Been a while since I've spent a lot of time here, but looking around I've gotta comment on the sheer number of threads presumably autolocked because of the amount of time elapsed since the threads creation.
I realize that people bumping threads that are years old can be annoying, and at the rate which vape technology advances it would seem that after a certain point old threads would become irrelevant, but frankly this is a little nuts IMO.
Case in point: I went into the mod maintaince forum and saw a thread about someone asking about applying polyurethane to copper mods at the top of the first page. The thread died out pretty quickly after only one reply, but the topic caught my attention because I've been toying with the idea of using fiberglass resin to coat copper tube mods to similar effect. I quickly realized that I couldn't reply because the thread was too old.
I wouldn't mind, but the thread in question is on the first page, old or not. In fact, most every thread in that forum is locked, including most every thread on that first page. So IMHO, if that forum produces such little activity, why bother having it at all if most of the content therein is read only? It's probably not just that forum either, is it? I bet if I were to really look around I'd find that many of the subforums here are full of read only content on their respective first pages.
As I said earlier, I kind of understand the idea behind the locks, but I feel that it is counterproductive overall. I mean, had I decided to post another thread about coating mods in fiberglass resin, that would eventually mean two or more locked threads on the first page, basically referencing the same topic. Senseless, IMO.
Do your thing ECF, but I feel that you've made a misstep here and it's probably costing you user activity out of sheer frustration on the posters part.
Vape on.
I realize that people bumping threads that are years old can be annoying, and at the rate which vape technology advances it would seem that after a certain point old threads would become irrelevant, but frankly this is a little nuts IMO.
Case in point: I went into the mod maintaince forum and saw a thread about someone asking about applying polyurethane to copper mods at the top of the first page. The thread died out pretty quickly after only one reply, but the topic caught my attention because I've been toying with the idea of using fiberglass resin to coat copper tube mods to similar effect. I quickly realized that I couldn't reply because the thread was too old.
I wouldn't mind, but the thread in question is on the first page, old or not. In fact, most every thread in that forum is locked, including most every thread on that first page. So IMHO, if that forum produces such little activity, why bother having it at all if most of the content therein is read only? It's probably not just that forum either, is it? I bet if I were to really look around I'd find that many of the subforums here are full of read only content on their respective first pages.
As I said earlier, I kind of understand the idea behind the locks, but I feel that it is counterproductive overall. I mean, had I decided to post another thread about coating mods in fiberglass resin, that would eventually mean two or more locked threads on the first page, basically referencing the same topic. Senseless, IMO.
Do your thing ECF, but I feel that you've made a misstep here and it's probably costing you user activity out of sheer frustration on the posters part.
Vape on.
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