[Smitty]

Originally Posted by southernlady

It would be different if the coder in question was ignoring the thread but that coder IS answering other questions on the thread.

You are correct - I ammend my post to reflect the instance of 1 post in a long thread. I do see that very often. I see it in my forum. In an active forum, I do not see any way, short of paying people to monitor every thread, to ensure every individual post is replied to. But again, most of this has to do with folks donating their 'hack'. I know on my forums I'm definitely not an expert in every subject / topic so I significantly depend upon moderators to answer questions/reply. My forum is relatively low volume. In a high volume forum this will be a significant problem short of paying people to 'police' threads to ensure every post is replied to. I hesitate to use the term 'impossible', which is why I say you'd have to pay someone (or more than 1 person) to 'police' every thread at last daily.