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[Digital Doctor]

Gosh.
I'm trying to find a good thread on weight gain and switching to e-cigs.
I've looked into 8 threads and they are all locked.

What the !

Is the occasional thread bump so harmful that all this thread locking is needed ?

I've never seen a place with this many locked threads.

Weird.

 

[DreamWithin]

Threads will auto-lock after a certain period of inactivity (I believe it's 30 days) (after 90 days with no posting)

Feel free to start a new thread on the subject if you can't find one that's currently active

 

[retired1]

Actually, it's 90 days of inactivity.

 

[DreamWithin]

Gah! Can you find me a new brain for sale somewhere? I think this one I've got is starting to go bad

 

[stevegmu]

You can just start a new thread. You are trying to gain weight by vaping?

 

[Digital Doctor]

Threads will auto-lock after a certain period of inactivity (I believe it's 30 days) (after 90 days with no posting)
Feel free to start a new thread on the subject if you can't find one that's currently active

90 days seems fair.
I like to keep information in one place. I wonder if Google likes information in one place.

You can just start a new thread. You are trying to gain weight by vaping?

I am trying to learn if you have less weight gain when switching to vaping vs. quitting smoking entirely.

 

[ChuffPuffer]

I don't understand why threads are locked just because they've not had any replies in 90 days. I run a forum elsewhere and it's wonderful to see say a 10 year old thread being resurrected. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling and shows that people are interested in looking at old threads and joining in the conversation. Just because a thread is 90 days without replies doesn't mean the info on that thread is no longer relevant. I don't see any point in having to start a new thread to discuss things that are already on existing threads. Surely it's much better to keep a certain topic on a single thread than multiple threads all over the place?

 

[retired1]

Some forums, that works fine. However the e-cigarette industry changes very fast. What was prudent a year ago may no longer be applicable today.