The ZOMBIE threads are coming to get us......

[HaremScarem]

MNHQ. Please can the ZOMBIE Thread Warning stay on zombie threads permanently. I keep getting caught out by zombie threads that have been resurrected by other posters. There are loads of them at the moment.

I put a lot of thought into some of my posts and it's frustrating when I realise that the OP has long gone.

I understand that sometimes there is a good reason for zombie threads to be resurrected but having the warning permanently on the thread won't prevent this. Thank you

[HaremScarem]

I have just counted four zombie threads

[FlossyMoo]

Awww cute kitten

But seriously I read a 7 page thread today to get all the way to the bloody end and see it was a zombie .

I have lost that time for ever and ever

[IamtheZombie]

Zombie would like to proclaim that she has no association with zombie threads.

She thanks you.

[myotherusernameiswittyandgreat]

I have suggested in the past that the warning is at the top to prevent us reading the whole thread then realising it is a zombie thread.

Please please MNHQ can you consider this?

[LegoCaltrops]

Excellent idea, all.

Pretty please, MNHQ?

[FlossyMoo]

Good evening Zombie The zombie threads do not have your charm and wit so the two are never confused

[IamtheZombie]

Zombie proposes as follows:

1. Henceforth so called zombie threads shall be known as Dead Threads,
   

1. The rather pathetic stick figure purporting to be a zombie is to be replaced with a coffin,
   

1. MNHQ should bribe Tech the All Powerful to place the DeadThread™ warning (i.e. the COFFIN) at both the beginning and the end of said DeadThread™.
   

She thanks you.

[FlossyMoo]

Very good suggestions Zombie I think dead thread has a good ring to it.

[HaremScarem]

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Dead threads it is then


........but whatever they are called I still want them with a sticky WARNING

[HaremScarem]

I guess asking for MNHQ imput was a bit daft on a saterday night/Sunday morning. I will wait until Monday and give the thread a little bumperoo.

[DawnMumsnet]

Hi HaremScarem

Wait, come back, we're here!

This seems like a pretty reasonable suggestion. We'll have a word with our lovely Tech folk to see how feasible it would be.

[FlossyMoo]

That emoticon does not exist Dawn and you know it

[ElephantsNeverForgive]

Yes, yes, yes to a warning at the top of ancient relics!

[trikken]

Yes it's disheartening to write a massive post and then realise the thread is a year old..

[HaremScarem]

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Ta very much DawnMumsnet

[UselessNess]

Any update?

[IamtheZombie]

Just remember:

1. DeadThread™
   

1. Coffin
   

1. At beginning and end of a DeadThread™
   

Zombie thanks Tech and MNHQ.

[giraffescantboogie]

agree

[UselessNess]

MNHQ Do you have these warnings on the bereavement threads? You would have to call them something else if you did. Old Threads?

[UselessNess]

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[FlossyMoo]

I have just checked on the bereavement boards on a post from 2003 and it doesn't say anything to alert it to being an old thread

[UselessNess]

Oh, that's good. I was very a bit daft not thinking to check myself.

[IneedAwittierNickname]

Are zombie threads/dead threads/old relics worth anything at auction? If they are we could sell them and buy gin?

And on abother note, surely they can't be dead threads because If they were dead then they couldn't be bought back? Maybe.

[FlossyMoo]

It's late Use not your fault it was good point though

[DrinkFeckArseGirls]

Please don't call them dead threads
Zombie or relic are fine.