Suggestion for new information in poster info

[Vod]

What would perhaps be a better solution is that the topic is automatically locked after x days after the OP publishes the last post in the topic.

Sorry, I think this solution is worse.  There are times when one wants to bump an abandoned thread, so we should suggest rather than force. 

[Lucius]

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Considering the very high percentage of those who open a topic and never come back to comment, I think that such a feature would be very useful. I learned a long time ago that suggestions are not something that has an effect on this forum, so if you want to do something right, you have to do it the hard way.

I believe that in this way the amount of spam generated in such a topics would be reduced, otherwise we have topics with 15+ pages in which members literally spam as long as you give them the opportunity to do so. Here's a classic example of what I'm talking about - a topic opened in September 2021 that stretched to 16 pages and where the OP never came back would still be open to spammers today if I hadn't made a report.

[dkbit98]

It would be nice to have a notice near the name if the user has not logged in a while.  i.e: (Inactive for 6 days).  Could just be for newbies, or for every topic starter.  

It can be useful to see this information but I think that BPIP extension is already showing status for everyone including Inactive members, but I am not sure what time period it counts to identify if member is inactive.
Extension is also showing banned and archived members, DT status, links for BPIP; Ninjastic.space and loyce.club.

Here is example for one Inacitve member I choose randomly:

[criptoevangelista]

If I try to reply to something very old, a warning appears at me... perhaps something could be added to this message about the OP being inactive...

But there are also people talking in the thread, I don't know if it would make sense, sometimes the OP doesn't even participate anymore... but the topic continues

[Vod]

Even here, people are replying without reading anything, so maybe it's just an outdated idea for an outdated forum. 

[GbitG]

Why it sounds like people should only reply a thread if the poster is active?

I don't see anything wrong when people reply to inactive poster because the discussion isn't only for the poster, but other people that interested with the discussion can learn something and ask other questions in that thread.

I've seen many threads where the authors of those threads are banned, yet discussions continue in those threads.

Yep Boss! 
You said it right that many banned OP's threads are still under discussion despite they being banned from the forum, but members are still doing their discussion in it. And I think the main reason for this is to discuss the topic not the OP's presence. Every member should aim at what the OP has elobrated, not this that he should be active or that he's in a discussion or not blah blah because we are not for that we are just for having to learn our knowledge or seeking a solution for the problems And we can explore ideas from the OP's topic, If a topic is general, then it is important to participate in the discussion, whether the OP is active or not.
 
Apart from this, I have also seen many threads in which the OP has asked for a solution to his problem, although many members have answered it, but the OP has not even replied in this thread because sometimes some newbies. They bring up such topics only for merit and do not even give a response to anyone in them when they get an answer to their problem.

[aioc]

(Note:  If this takes more than $1,000,000 to implement, please ignore!)

If it will help the flow of conversation why not

Newbies so often start threads and then abandon their account when conversations do not go their way.   Then other newbies come along and reply to the OP that hasn't been online for weeks.

There are discussions where the Original Poster doesn't need to be online during the flow of the discussion in the case of a boxing event one can open a discussion about two fighters fighting for a World title, and there are two months before the fight, the discussion will continue and everyone can provide updates

It would be nice to have a notice near the name if the user has not logged in a while.  i.e: (Inactive for 6 days).  Could just be for newbies, or for every topic starter. 

The warning "This post is xx days old!" does not address this issue.

If the OP opened a thread about his issue or complaints, which is considered a personal issue, then this is an instance where we need this feature.

[Amphenomenon]

If I try to reply to something very old, a warning appears at me... perhaps something could be added to this message about the OP being inactive...

But there are also people talking in the thread, I don't know if it would make sense, sometimes the OP doesn't even participate anymore... but the topic continues

To me nothing is needed to added to this because this everything clear to everyone except such a person is a spammer or something good, they won`t bump just thread. This is not  base on inactive members only because there so many other post of such were the Op is still active but that thread is still very much old.

I think the best option is to report thread to be lock, were its clear that there is already an answer to the OP post and others continue to make an irrelevant reply similar to this shared by Lucius

Even here, people are replying without reading anything, so maybe it's just an outdated idea for an outdated forum. 

I guess this is inevitable in every forum, some read the Op post and ignore others replies while others read only replies before making their own reply.

[348Judah]

(Note:  If this takes more than $1,000,000 to implement, please ignore!)

Newbies so often start threads and then abandon their account when conversations do not go their way.   Then other newbies come along and reply to the OP that hasn't been online for weeks.

It would be nice to have a notice near the name if the user has not logged in a while.  i.e: (Inactive for 6 days).  Could just be for newbies, or for every topic starter. 

The warning "This post is xx days old!" does not address this issue.

This is an interesting observation/suggestion being made and i support for that, it will help keep on a track on each of the thread in situations whereby the Op to such thread isn't active anymore or has already been given the required and necessary response needed from the thread, instead of other members spamming up and posting, it could either be locked or notified on any user to that it has been a while since the last active day of the OP, i think something similar to this has already been existing in the situation whereby when you want to make post on old threads, you will receive information warning it been a while since last reply has been made to that thread.