What is going on?

[prpjam]

The list of posts for the Bay Area board seems to be recycling posts from a year ago. I have noticed this several times.

What is going on?

[toodie jane]

....also, it was remarked in another Site Talk thread that sometimes an old thread will come up WITHOUT a new reply.

It was explained that this occurs because a spammer has hit a thread. The spam gets deleted by the mods, but the thread resurfaces anyway. This happened about a week ago on a Chico thread.

[anndillman]

Melanie, how do you "change your page view by "date started" instead of "latest reply".

[Pupster]

If I may, the option is listed under the board heading. ex. if you hit the Site Talk board, underneath is View By: with date started and latest reply in different colors. Just hit the one you want and the board will re-order all the threads to your desire.

[anndillman]

Thanks, just what I needed!

[Melanie Wong]

If you'd prefer not to see old posts resurface, you can change your page view by "date started" instead of "latest reply".

[Robert Lauriston]

But if you do that, you may miss a lot of interesting posts.

[anndillman]

How do you change your page view?

[spigot]

It's a feature, prpjam - meaning, it's on purpose. On the new chowhound, whenever someone replies to a thread it goes to the top. So if someone replies to something really old, it'll resurface as though it were new.

I like it, actually. It's a kind of Darwinism thing - the most interesting stuff rises to the top rather than dying..