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Forum Discussion / Locking Topics and Necroing Threads
« on: October 15, 2016, 11:59:55 pm »
Before you go ahead and lock this one saying it's redundant, I understand that there is a very similar topic that rants about the staff, but that thread is just trying to paint the staff team in a negative light. That's not at all what I'm trying to do. Just bringing fresh blood to a topic. And, after all, that topic hasn't been posted on for twenty or more days. Don't necro old threads, right?
Well, I've noticed that the staff tends to lock up threads if there's been a similar one within 2-5 months, directing people to that thread. I get it if the other thread was maybe a week or so old, but months? And yet still saying not to necro old threads? It seems, at least to me, hypocritical.
One that's pretty recent, still on the first page of the Forum Discussion board, is "Who's Online." User leahling made a thread earlier this month, which Warriorstrike then locked, directing people to a thread that hadn't been posted on since late May covering the exact same topic. We are advised against necroing old threads, yet we are being directed to something that hasn't been posted on since May.
I find this a bit strange. I'm not saying that the staff are doing their job wrong, but it feels to me that when they do this, they're cutting people off from talking about a topic that really interests them, only to direct them to a potentially months old thread, that when they go to reply to, get that little red warning asking them if they really want to reply.
Does anyone else notice this? Any other viewpoints on this? As far as I know, besides that other thread I mentioned before, no one else is really talking about the locking of threads. Sure, that other person pointed out some things, but overall had a really negative attitude about it. I don't want to come off as negative, I just am really curious as to whether or not other people seem to notice this trend of staff almost encouraging necroing threads, despite it being something that is advised against.
Well, I've noticed that the staff tends to lock up threads if there's been a similar one within 2-5 months, directing people to that thread. I get it if the other thread was maybe a week or so old, but months? And yet still saying not to necro old threads? It seems, at least to me, hypocritical.
One that's pretty recent, still on the first page of the Forum Discussion board, is "Who's Online." User leahling made a thread earlier this month, which Warriorstrike then locked, directing people to a thread that hadn't been posted on since late May covering the exact same topic. We are advised against necroing old threads, yet we are being directed to something that hasn't been posted on since May.
I find this a bit strange. I'm not saying that the staff are doing their job wrong, but it feels to me that when they do this, they're cutting people off from talking about a topic that really interests them, only to direct them to a potentially months old thread, that when they go to reply to, get that little red warning asking them if they really want to reply.
Does anyone else notice this? Any other viewpoints on this? As far as I know, besides that other thread I mentioned before, no one else is really talking about the locking of threads. Sure, that other person pointed out some things, but overall had a really negative attitude about it. I don't want to come off as negative, I just am really curious as to whether or not other people seem to notice this trend of staff almost encouraging necroing threads, despite it being something that is advised against.
