Enhancements to Forum page
 

On a Forum page -- the page listing the threads -- each thread is identified by its Subject, which is also a link to the thread, and the userid of the original poster.

I think it would be useful to also display the originating date of the original post and/or the current post count of the originating poster.

That would identify both the time since the original post and whether or not the OP ever came back (sort of).
I think either of those additional data would be useful/interesting.

Thoughts?

I think this suggestion has merit and should be considered for a future update.

It might reduce the resurrection of long-buried threads by making the date of the first post more prominent.

Or just automatically lock threads six months or a year after the last reply.

That's not the point of my suggestion, tho that may be an idea with some merit. Maybe open a new thread here to propose that?

I'm suggesting time of OP so one can see if the thread is recent or has been lingering for a few days or weeks. Combined with observation of the number of replies one can deduce whether they want to open the thread to review and/or comment.

I think the more interesting idea of my post is displaying the post count of the OP. I've seen, and participated in, threads with tens of replies where the OP has never come back, or ever posted anything else. Having the post count would make that obvious from the Forum overview page.

The PhpBB (or phpBB or PHPBb or...), e.g. on forum.softmaker.com does it that way:
Screen Shot of the German issue.

The columns are Subject - Responses - Access - Last contribution
The date/time-values are the one of the OP and of the last contribution.

This would be a great addition and I, like you, have wished for that feature many times.