Have you ever accidentally necroposted?

"lisamwitt;c-17177282" wrote:
I wasn't sure how to answer this, because I've never been the one that started it.
Like a lot of others, I've commented on threads when someone else already did it and it popped up in current discussions. I've done that probably a handful of times, because I just browse through discussions and comment on the ones that look interesting. I don't generally look through the dates. Just this past week I had commented on a thread and the next post was a mod commenting that it was necroposted and closing it. I've often wondered why they don't just automatically close threads that are past a certain age, then necroposting couldn't happen.

They did that and then people in the building/creative forums got upset when they came back to post a new creation in their showcase thread only to find that it had been locked. So they undid the batch locking they had done. And now close threads as they get necro'd. It does not appear that they can have different rules for different sections.

I wonder if they could do something like what MTS does and put a "this thread hasn't had a reply in X months" to help prevent necro'ing there.