We wouldn’t still have Mosaic.
yeah, but clearly those necro’ed posts are the bigger evil - they go against the code of conduct, after all! 
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Can’t have the 20 people still talking about this game trying to think of something to talk about ehh? 
Come on, you know that changing stuff in the game requires different resources than moderating a forum.
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Let us fool around a bit and have some fun, killjoy.
Debatable. I mean they log in every day multiple times to delete things on the forums. Pretty sure a dev could fix Mosaic in less time.
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If we’re opening this up to public discussion, I would argue that forum moderation is way more easily automated, and therefore de facto takes less human effort once said automation is implemented. And, as it happens, the tools for this have existed well before these forums were a formal thing.
Contrast this with altering video game code. Yes, AI can do that as well, however the raw subjective nature of “fun” means the human element is needed to parse “feedback” and that de facto means it DOES take more effort to “fix Mosaic” or literally anything else gameplay related.
I’ve seen fully AI-driven video before, there was an AI a year back that was doing a Seinfeld ripoff 24-7 that might even still be ongoing, I haven’t checked in on it in a while. But I’ve yet to come across a fully AI-driven video game, of any caliber, let alone as polished as D2R.
It’s necessarily more effort to balance the game than to balance the forums.
I’m pretty sure anyone with modding experience could fix Mosaic very quickly. Heck let’s see if Zax ever chimes in on if he could do it or not.
I mean as an aside with zero coding knowledge it look me about 18 hours from start to finish to rip the entire romance system out of BG3 and made a mod out of it, starting from zero knowledge of the tools to have it up online with it’s own crappy banner. Most of it was figuring out the GUID values of all of the companions, and then doing a find replace for a bunch of variables.
That sounds harder than messing with Mosaic frankly.
It can be a bit confusing at times, but what exactly is So offensive about commenting on older posts? I’ve seen many sites with Threads going back 15 years or more & if reading isn’t actively a burden, those can be a facinating read.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. The question is what you are trying to achieve with it, and how relevant it is.
For example, a reasonable use could be when a change recently happened that alters the thread’s information. In some cases, it could also be used to inquire about whether there has been additional information or changes on an issue, like if a solution to a bug has been found.
Bad uses would include reviving old threads on matters already being currently discussed (typically in order to multiply visibility on the forums, like has been done many times for the players X online matter).
I can’t speak for the threads that have recently been locked, as I don’t know what was in the messages that dug them up.
Yes, and it’s still more effort than toggling a box on the forums to prevent necroposting. They can DELETE threads, and they do NOT need to be manually present to do it. Hell, if they wanted to, they could prevent me from using the word Hell.
Mosaic fixing is easy, but forums are easier. If we’re throwing those two into a competition on which takes less effort, forums win hands down every time.
Find someone you know in passing, like an actual RL acquaintance, on facebook. Maybe an ex, maybe an old friend, maybe a former coworker or even current coworker. Now imagine this person found one of your FIRST ever posts, and threw a “Like” react onto it.
Feels weird to think about, right? Just a slight faux pas. Nothing SUPER bad, but still, I think the kids call it cringe these days. Right? Slight cringe.
Necroposting, at BEST, feels like that because the topic MIGHT be relevant (either still, or “brought back into relevance”) but the last post was X standard units of time ago, where X is long enough to feel cringe. It’s no “capital offense” or some such, but it’s weird and unusual.
Now mix trolls into that, or shall we say, people whose intent for posting may be “less than good faith,” and you can see the problem.
That being said, I reiterate that forum moderation is laughably easy and it’s very telling that they manually lock those threads, but they don’t manually balance the game we’re discussing.
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True but they do moderation every single day, multiple times a day. I’m fairly certain that in the many months since Mosaic was added someone could have fixed a couple lines of code for the same amount of effort.
it has basically been answered by the other folks, here a link and the relevant passage:
Don’t “bump” posts.
The act of posting simply to bump a thread is considered spamming. This also includes bumping very old threads for no reason (called “necro bumping” or “necroing”). Users who are found to be bumping posts will be subject to forum account suspension and post removal.
Now you can discuss what constitues “no reason” … 
Sigh. I see some plausible, legitimate reasons, but the sad fact is, ‘People gonna People’. If you restrict bad actors in one way, they’ll find another, because they’re Bad Actors.
Heck even some of my Dogs are smart enough to understand the concept of ‘getting around limits on unwanted behavior.’ I tell Bucky not to bark when he’s in the house, he starts Chuffing. Decides that’s not satisfying enough, goes outside & transforms into Barky Barkface.