VB5 has no Artificial Intelligence (AI). Many are saying it has no intelligence at all!
VB4 and below had the ability to throw up a warning to proceed at your own risk when a Non-OP read a thread more than 90 days old. It has been on the Fix/Improve list since the minute VB5 was thrown at us.
From my old coding days;
SUBROUTINE READ-POST
IF Username NEQ OP-Username and ((Today MINUS Last-Post-Date) GTR Than 90) DISP "90 Day Warning"
LOOP
IF (CANCEL OR ESC) EQL TRUE
BRANCH PRIORSCREEN; Go back
ENDIF
IF POST-REPLY EQL TRUE
BRANCH RULES; RTFM
ENDIF
ENDLOOP
ENDIF
ENDSUB
Syntax is all wrong and language is mixed up and I'm not up on new stuff, but that's the basic idea.
We used to have a warning that a new post duplicated one made in the last 5 minutes or so. VB5 dumped that one.
And when starting a new thread and posting, VB5 takes you back to New Topic instead of showing the thread you just started, so the poster does it again. This is why dupes are a minute apart.
Buy/Sell/Swap is a different animal. The text has to be parsed looking for key words and would be difficult to detect. A Buy/Sell/Swap section would be better, so Mods could edit or delete as required. It would be a mostly empty section.
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