Replies to posts in MRC Archive

Just tried to add a reply to a TT Summer Lounge Party - Thursday 26.Aug.2004 in the MRC Archive, but I am apparently not allowed to do that.

The post is from 19th December, today is the 24th = 5 days old, is not long.

The "add reply" button is present and activated, but just leads to the error screen.

While the concept of having an MRC archive is good, it appears to be based on the number of posts in MRC rather than the age of the posts. I think it should be possible to add a reply to thread where the last post was less then a week ago.

At times when lots of new threads are being created, having a numbers limit means that even very recent threads land in the archive. At the moment, there are 62 threads in MRC, one of which is closed. These are listed on 4 pages, but the 4th only has 2 threads on it... Maybe a limit of 4 or 5 whole pages = 80 or 100 threads would be better.

Why can't the closed threads pushed to the archive before the others, or even as soon as they are closed? No one can reply to them anyway.

The only work around seem to be creating a new Beer Garden Weather! Chinese Tower: Mon 2.Aug.2004, but that is like the bank adding overdraft charges to your over draft, it just exacerbates the situation.

An answer should be forthcoming after the festive period mike_a, but in answer to why you can't post:

See so i am not the only one here

I was told this RTFM =
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READ THE F*CKING MANUAL i.e. read the instructions

Thanks Mack, but I did write:


I suppose I should have been more precise, and written out completely why it was apparent but, in my brevity, I was trying to do something against my reputation for excedingly long posts. Had I not seen that MRC is read only, I would have written "it seems I am" instead of "I am apparently"

It was just not logical to me why the "add reply" button should be present and activated, when it is not allowed -- Being of experimental nature, I like to try-out things which are present, but I am told I am not allowed...

I will look forward to the forthcomming answer to the rest

@ 3T: I suppose you've just been waiting for the opportunity, Stef...

:$ yep but i think you know how to take it mike_a

I think it goes on my bottom past

I understood you Mike although I did when I read the thread title...


I agree! It's really annoying if you have not been online and a topic has been archived before you have had chance to join in.

Although I guess it's our own fault, sometimes there is a very high turn over of threads in Misc.