The problem with newbies replying to really old threads lies in these new forums layout when they brought the threads over. Nothing was in the old order by date, they just came over and old threads were at the top of the pages so unaware folks were answering question from the last post of a 10 year old thread. Blame this new GS forum and the new folks overseeing it who didn't care. The old moderators had no say in this operation.
Hey MORSNOW,
Let me know if you see this someplace within the community, but everything is defaulted to "newest to oldest," meaning that the user shouldn't see posts from 2003 first on their timeline or on any page. They can always change their settings to see it that way, but it's not the default setting for a new user.
We can see most of these people commenting on older posts are because they have Googled a question and landed in the community because there is a very similar topic. They click into the community to read but don't see the date. They quickly make an account so they can reply, and that's how it gets pushed to the top of the Community Homepage because it was the most recent activity on a post within the community.
Thanks,
Community Alumni wrote:Hey MORSNOW,
Let me know if you see this someplace within the community, but everything is defaulted to "newest to oldest," meaning that the user shouldn't see posts from 2003 first on their timeline or on any page. They can always change their settings to see it that way, but it's not the default setting for a new user.
We can see most of these people commenting on older posts are because they have Googled a question and landed in the community because there is a very similar topic. They click into the community to read but don't see the date. They quickly make an account so they can reply, and that's how it gets pushed to the top of the Community Homepage because it was the most recent activity on a post within the community.Thanks,
I didn't even think about the Google Search folks leaving those odd comments in old threads, thank you for opening my eyes. I have trouble when reading these old threads and finding the new reply/post as many get inserted in the middle of the thread. I wish there was a way to jump to the "First Unread Post" so I don't have to scroll through page after page after page of old comments looking for the newest posts. Thank you evanseegmiller
how do you explain this one in the 5th wheel group thismorning, I went through it not a post outside of 2014 and some how its at the top haha, most of the time it is because some one replied to a old topic but this one doesnt make sence.
