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Forcibly and permanently disabling blog comments after 30 days is so annoying. Is there any way to disable this, or configure it to disable after a longer period of time? It was annoying enough when it was only on here...
Sure, you don't want people commenting on year-old blogs. But only 30 days is a bit debatable for enough time.
---****--- Roads 19:55,11/11/2012
- Hmm? I wasn't aware that was a built-in feature. Don't you need to install the w:c:dev:LockOldBlogs script to do that? The administrators can customise the length of time until the lock happens in the wiki's Common.js if they want. Lunarity 06:51, November 12, 2012 (UTC)
- Oh, it turns out someone else put it in. Never mind, then. :P
- ---****--- Roads 16:37,11/12/2012
- "you don't want people commenting on year-old blogs."
- Why is that, exactly? I've never seen any problem in any form with anyone commenting on old blogs or forum posts. In fact, I've often seen the opposite: Disallowing adding new information to old discussions means that false information cannot be corrected. When searching for information on video games, threads on gamefaqs often come up in the results - usually unanswered similar questions from years ago, which no-one can answer now.
- Wikia suffers the same problem with locking old blogs and forums posts. When I search for a question, it's easy to find the same question being asked, but impossible to leave an answer in the same place so that the next person searching can find it easily.
- The implementation of Message Walls has caused wiki-wide locking of all talk pages, again making it impossible to leave answers to old questions, despite those unanswered questions popping up in search results. -452 19:53, November 14, 2012 (UTC)