Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

Posted Nov 28, 2022 0:05 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team by flussence
Parent article: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

This article is seven years old. Somebody seems to be reading and commenting on ancient articles which, especially when they are controversial, looks even worse if you don't realise they are ancient history.

It would be nice if comments got locked automatically after a decent (six months?) period of time, then we wouldn't be getting zombie articles coming back to haunt us ...

Cheers,
Wol

Comments on old articles

Posted Nov 28, 2022 1:03 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

I've thought in the past about closing comments after a period of time, but occasionally somebody posts a useful update to an old topic and I'd hate to block that. I suppose we could send comments on old articles to moderation... Will ponder.

Comments on old articles

Posted Nov 28, 2022 1:30 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Something like that would be nice. They're not that common, but comments on zombie articles are annoying usually, and seem to have become more common recently.

Cheers,
Wol