A safeguard to reduce necroposting

There is already have a dialog that shows a warning when you are about to necropost, but what about accidental misclicks? My idea was to implement a dialog box before replying that would warn the user "Are you sure you want to post this, this topic is 2 years old" as a warning. That way in the situation where you accidentally quote a reply and tap the reply button on a old topic, or for newer members this warning will show up. If t

My idea:

  1. User attempts to reply to old topic.
  2. The built-in warning shows up.
  3. User tries to reply to topic
  4. The new warning I am suggesting comes up as a further safeguard to prevent accident posts.
  5. If the warning is read and they want to post it, the reply will still be posted.

Now that I think about it, there used to be a necropost warning in old topics, but that is been gone lately in modern discourse?



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