Victron MultiPlus II Inverter/Charger
Anyone install the MultiPlus II?
Forum Discussion
3 year old post and OP hasn't been on here since. Responding to old posts messes up the sort order of the recent topics.
🙄Here’s an idea. If the post is open it’s an invitation to be interacted with. If the sort order matters so much then the post should be closed. Otherwise what does it matter? Seriously?
So I know you've only been here like a week, but StirCrazy articulated the reasons quite well. And hopefully you get some of the history as to why/what. You can click on a user name and see their last activity. That might be worth checking before responding to them. Recently we've seen a slew of newbie hit and run posts on decades old topics. When the format was converted they had focus groups with some of us users and asked for feedback. One of the top requests was to lock old topics. Fast forward, all the developers and support including almost all the mods are just gone. We have basically no support. So we try and self maintain/monitor as best we can to keep this forum on life support.
You’ve stated this reason to me before. However, you are running people off from this forum by being so unwelcoming. The age of the post isn’t important if it can engage more people. Be more welcoming. Stop berating people for posting on a thread that doesn’t meet your self prescribed standards. Let’s attempt to make this a welcoming community. There’s a lot of information out there that people love to provide. But discouraging conversation just chased new members away.
Have you read all my posts? usually it goes like this "you are a responding to a decade old post and the Op is no longer here. You will probably get more responses by posting your topic in a a new thread. " it's not crass. It's letting them know that hey, you might want to pay attention to the age of what you're responding to. Sometimes it works. The volume of newbie hit and run posts is a large percentage of traffic on here and usually from google searches that prompt visitors that never return. Some is spam, some is AI. Legit new posts I try and be as helpful as I can be. But people with one sentence responses that add no value on topic that's a decade old isn't helpful to anyone and it puts them at the top of the sort and appear like a new post. You're new here, we've been dealing with this ad nauseum for years. I appreciate you're fresh perspective and you're not wrong on your approach. But some of it it totally moot garbage. Kumbaya.
we are trying to figure out how to lock posts over a certain age so they are read only, it just hasn't come to reality yet. I could start manually locking them, but that is probably a 3 year job when you could have a script that works much better.
the problem with replying to old posts is there is over 80% chance that the original poster isn't here anymore since the board change over. there were a lot of things that made it a bit difficult to migrate your account over so many didn't.
the other issues is technological advancements. this doesn't apply to every thread, but if you were to start posting on threads say 5 or 6 years old on LiFePO4 batteries for example, so much of the information is false wives tails and sales propaganda so lead acid could hold on to its market share. this information probably took a good 4 or 5 years to get people to stop repeating the falsehoods and some may still post them. If we dig up threads like that, then new people who are just coming in read it and not knowing any better, they think that's the truth. unless they start reading every thread on them where we one by one dispelled the falsehoods they won't know any better.
so while personally I have no problem with anyone replying to a thread that is 20 years old as log as it is a general thread, but if its technology related or your looking for help with something, I would like to see new threads which will engage much more of the current members.
I can appreciate the concerns about old threads and their impact on forum sorting for outdated info however this thread is simply asking if anyone has installed a multiplus2 inverter, which is still relevant today. Evergreen topics like this can spark meaningful discussion and engage both new and existing members. Rather than discouraging participation, shouldn’t we encourage interaction to keep the community vibrant? If a thread contains outdated or misleading info, I agree it should be locked or flagged, but this one feels like a conversation starter worth reviving. Let’s focus on building engagement and sharing knowledge to grow the community. Not squashing comments because the thread is old!
the problem is "most" people don't read the whole thread before posting and are trying to post suggestions on a post that the original poster solved the problem/bought the part 10 years ago so the post is totally redundant and confuses me in the morning when I try to check the new posts for spam as the way the new board merges' new comments with old posts make the real hard to find sometimes, but that's my issue not yours haha
your right there are discussion threads where stuff can live for ever and a few of those have been reposted to and it was fine, but the ones where some one is looking for help 10 years ago, or was wondering about a specific rv they are looking at buying in 2001 are kind of pointless as either they have bought it or something else or fixed the issue by now.
the other part that complicates it is the migration of the board probably cut the membership down by 70% so a lot of these people are not here anymore, which is to bad, we used to have some wild discussions that bordered on the fine edge of moderator control haha
what I would like to see is a lot of fresh new discussion topics to try kickstart the board again. there have been a lot of changes in rv's over even the last 10 years but no one is talking about them.
