Ringo - I answered your question in that other thread.
Since the question about bumping old threads comes up a lot, I expanded upon our guidelines. Read the FAQ for more details.
Arnold
You’ve done a very good job maintaining the FAQs. As an old-timer, I can remember when people clamored for one. You’ve given us what we asked for and then some. Thanks for doing it.
I’ve noticed that long-dead threads often seem to get revived on or near the anniversary of their demise; is this just human error on the part of the person posting (i.e. they misread the last post date) or is there a possibility of some sort of glitch in the way that date indexing works when searching?
If there were any correlation, it must be people remembering threads on the anniversary date.
People with vBulletin Boards already do this, through many different means. You could even do an
“alter thread set open=0 where (date of last post)<(unsigned integer time of open deadline you wish to set)”
or something to close them all at once without modifying the Board - but you would have to include it in normal maintenance then, and that would be a pain in the ass to remember.
Of course, this is all just FYI. I can’t see why the SDMB need change anything.
Note that this code not only does not do anything, it uses the wrong commands, to prevent people from finding new things to try out. So don’t bother trying it.