I'm starting to re-think my life choices, that was very deep dear floof.
I just may scour through the ancient forum and revamp or resurrect some topics...
still thinking about life lessons
As far as it goes when it comes to the FeralHeart forum and things around it, it's an important part of what we have today. Eventually what lead up to the game we have today, and the community that follows.
There's a lot of history dug in and hidden around these boards about everything more or less FeralHeart related, and much of this is information or just history and most players never will hear of ever again, things that literary shaped this community. Could be struggles and hard work, fun events or happenings, less fun ones too, but also people(good or bad) that has come and that has gone. There's also a lot of knowledge that can be easily snatched up from someone more fresh in their boots if they're willing to find it.
Counting away the time and energy that needs to be spent to find the things that might appear a bit more hidden or forgotten, I only see gains from reading up on old posts and topics, they have a lot to learn us really. I myself find it very important that we keep as many threads as possible up and visible around the boards, this so people can actually go back in time and see what might've taken place and learn, and I believe staff and even common users of this community agree with me on that too. I cannot imagine this forum without all the old history within reach just a few clicks away.
reviving old posts and topics are discouraged and pointless.That's true.
It's all a matter of "how" and "why".Well said, Red. (Hey, that rhymes.)
Just writing a short reply like.
"I like this, nice!" or "Wow, I didn't know" will not really provide anything to an old discussion thread laying about. It's nothing wrong with bumping a discussion subject that would still be actual to talk about today, let's say someone posted about opinions regarding the map maker in FeralHeart. In no way is that thread getting out of date since the map maker will always be a part of FeralHeart. Things like content threads too, maps, markings? If someone want to let the OP know they like their creations an old date shouldn't stop anyone really.
It all depends on how the commenter revives the thread, what for, what the topic is about etc.
This is also why we cannot have a rule plainly saying that reviving threads is against the rules or that anyone can post in an old thread since the rules wouldn't really be suiting either way. Mentioning that it's "discouraged" is a more well explained way since it will keep most sensible from bumping for bad reasons and keep things more actual around the boards. But as far as just reading up around the board or bringing back some history around the community I do not have anything against really.
I hope this explains it.