There is already have a dialog that shows a warning when you are about to necropost, but what about accidental misclicks? My idea was to implement a dialog box before replying that would warn the user “Are you sure you want to post this, this topic is 2 years old” as a warning. That way in the situation where you accidentally quote a reply and tap the reply button on a old topic, or for newer members this warning will show up.
My idea:
User attempts to reply to old topic.
The built-in warning shows up.
User tries to reply to topic
The new warning I am suggesting comes up as a further safeguard to prevent accident posts.
If the warning is read and they want to post it, the reply will still be posted.
Now that I think about it, there used to be a necropost warning in old topics, but that is been gone lately in modern discourse?
Edit: I had realized the necropost warning has simply vanished. You can move this to a separate bug report if needed but the realization after making this feature request had kicked in.
But there is a warning of a similar kind that still exists. It warns you if you replied to the same user in the same thread 3 times. It asks you to consider continuing in a private message thread.
You are right, the connection is weak and in no way I wanted to suggest that your statement was incorrect. It seems to me that the topic might be more general about a whole category of messages that educate forum members about how to behave (soft rules, let’s say). That’s my connection.
So to me it’s interesting that some rules are gone and some very similar rules stay.
Hello all and thanks for contributing to this discussion.
It is correct that some composer warnings, such as the revive-old-topic or “necro posting” have been removed.
We wanted to look at improving the experience of these warnings in general; the original type was often perceived as annoying, since it filled the entire preview panel and blocked the writing process.
To address this, some warnings have been paired down, so they take up less space.
For others, we decided to remove them.
For the one specifically discussed here, our reasoning was that the goal of preventing necro-posting didn’t align with our values: we believe that content has longterm value, so why would we discourage participation in a topic that someone wants to discuss? We would rather have a topic revival than encouraging people to create duplicate topics, which would be the implied alternative.
Because of this, there are no plans to bring this back, and your best bet would be to make a TC for it.
