Young Writers Society

I had decided to review some of the older stories, the ones from 2005. I did a few reviews and I was told that I should not review the older posts because it would cause their story to be locked? Is this true and why?

Think about it.

You post a story on the forums. Five years later, someone comments on it.

Is their opinion really useful to you anymore? Chances are you've moved on.

Plus, if we were always dredging up old stories, the new ones wouldn't get nearly enough attention.

Pork

Prokayote is absolutely right. I would hate it if some of my pieces from when I was 16 were brought up again.

Both Snoink and Pork are absolutely right. To add to that, I just wanted to say that it's forum etiquette. A thread that is five years old will have already served it's purpose. Also, the member may be banned, not around anymore, or simply embarrassed that everyone will see their old, bad writing.

Everybody here has it right. ^^ When you review an old story, you run the chance of that author not wanting their story/poem up for reviews again. In fact, most of the time this is the case! When people have dredged up my 5-year old poetry in the past, I immediately lock it because I'm no longer in that stage of my writing. If a writer asks you to review something old, that's no problem, but if you review an old piece without asking the author first, there's a very high chance the author will lock that topic.