I recently received up votes for posts I made over 5 years ago! Really?? -- shouldn't there be a time limit for such things? I appreciate the up votes, but they are pretty-much meaningless after all this time.
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Jump to PostNo, I don't feel there should be a time limit because a main attribute of the forums is that everything you write not only helps the OP but lives on to help many, many millions of people years into the future.
Jump to PostI agree with the above, although if you really have an issue, link me to that post and I would be more than happy to downvote it. ;)
Jump to PostThere are lot's of occasions when I happen to be boldly notified that:
"this thread is { [xx] months : years} old"
etc etcI don't think that people are that blind or illiterate to not see or understand that a solved ie 5 year old thread, has a five …
Jump to PostI don't think that people are that blind or illiterate to not see or understand that a solved ie 5 year old thread, has a five years old solution!
Even with the big notification in the quick reply, we still see people posting to threads that are several …
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