Inactive thread warning?

That would be very useful. I'm sure that has happened in the past when I've gone to post on an old thread without noticing.......

It already has something similar.

Although further investigation indicates this only happens if a thread is a year or more old.

We do have that I ve encountered it before now
Ok sorry Julie after it’s a year old, well I guess that’s fairly ok by a year it’s done and dusted

Thanks JulieNoted. This issued occurred to me after seeing a thread in Bereavement which has been reactivated after two years. The person reactivating the thread would have seen this warning, then. A warning message after a month would be better imo.

I have noticed several rather old, resurrected threads over the past week. I presume this is more likely to occur when someone is new to the site, perhaps not realising that things move on at quite a speed and posting on a thread which is several months old is usually irrelevant. Perhaps a three month warning message would be a happy medium, long enough for someone to come back and update if they wish but not overlong.

I think a 'warning' is the most appropriate - sometimes posters (especially OPs) may want to come back to say 'this is the outcome / thank you for helping me' or similar.
I would add that the warning could include ' you may get a better response if you start a new thread'
I think some posters google their issue / problem, get led to a thread here, and sign in and post without really checking the site.