I was recently on webhostingtalk.com and responded to an old thread, only to get a warning that the thread was over 10 months old and did I really want to respond to such an old topic?

Is there anyone else here who thinks this might be a good thing to (optionally) enable for IPS forums?

There was a third party hook for the 3x series that offered this, It was called "Dead topic protection" (or very similar)

Basically a warning/note box would appear next to the reply window warning the poster they were about to reply to an ancient topic. The 'age of topic to show a warning' was obviously adjustable as an admin setting.

I'm not immediately aware of an IPS4 version of said file though.

There is a version for 4.x, but I don't know if it works. 

 

6 hours ago, AndyF said:

There was a third party hook for the 3x series that offered this, It was called "Dead topic protection" (or very similar)

Yes, that was it and I didn't update mine because someone else made something similar (above)... so I didn't see why update it.

On 04/02/2017 at 7:27 AM, Adriano Faria said:

Yes, that was it and I didn't update mine because someone else made something similar (above)... so I didn't see why update it.

@iacas sponsored the update of my plugin to IPS 4.2: