Exactly.
Man, I'll tell you one thing about B3D though - people absolutely hate starting new threads, vs just keeping whatever ancient one going.
Two simple things here, that shouldn't be rocket science:
1. If there's a thread on a topic already, it very likely also contains information on that topic.
2. If you make a new thread, you'll first have checked if there isn't at least a recent thread on the topic. Very often, you'll find the older thread. Now you have to start thinking about whether or not that older thread is so old that you actually need a new thread. Except that there is no user logic whatsover in making a new thread - this seems to me to be a desire that is only useful for board management.
3. When you do make a new thread, then once you've entered the title, the board will helpfully show you all threads that may match your subject automatically, so as to prevent you from making duplicate threads. Here there's no filter for threads that are actually older than a certain time, nor is there any admin message suggesting you to check the dates and if older than ... what? a year? ... to make a new thread rather than click one of the older threads and continue there.
In other words, this board
really wants you to reuse existing threads.
Personally, I think if reusing old threads is really destructive to board performance, maintenance or whatever, then implement a feature that locks threads that have a latest post older than x amount of days.
Otherwise, I would make/keep preventing double threads from occuring to main priority, and be happy that users here know how to use the search button.
/off-topic
Really curious about this game. It's been quiet for a fair while, as this thread itself suggests
, but the game looked promising back then, and it looks promising now.
