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[quote=Anonymous]Reviving ages-old threads is a common, and sometimes annoying, occurrence on DCUM.

A recent thread in the Travel forum explored why:

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    Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was astonished that someone dragged that old 2011 thread up again. Why? WHY?
        OP, it was started by a Brazilian woman to mock Americans. It was stupid and pointless from the get-go. So you should just let it go....

I always wonder why old threads from years ago get revived all the time.

That is, until I used the search function for something like "children's books"

When the results pop up, they are listed chronologically from the oldest thread to the newer threads. No one is going to sift through 287 pages of old threads to find the relevant current one.

They are going to look at the thread at the top of the list, and maaaaybe make it 2-3 pages in before posting a reaction to something.

I think this problem could be fixed if Jeff would reconfigure the search function so that it lists from the most recent topic to later ones, just as the "recent topics" forum does.

The search function defaults to searching by relevance, but you can modify it to search chronologically by date. [/quote]

Jeff, what do you think about altering the default on the search function to give results chronologically, with the newest ones first?

When I search for something, it's usually something recent, and it's frustrating to go through threads from 2010 and 2012 first.  That might also cut down on the old-thread-revival syndrome.  
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