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Anything special with that thread, that someone from Customer Support closes it after approximately 5 years and 8 month?
As said in the Topic: purely wondering…
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It’s against the forum code of conduct to discuss disciplinary actions…
Added link to it:
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Someone opened a whole new account just for the sake of necro bumping it with 1 post. So, someone from moderation team, appeared and wiped the new responses and locked it. Yes, we have a moderation team and a Community Manager reading here everyday instead of automated bots or Artificial Intelligence taking over.
Also as Jazz said, leave the discussion here or nuke the thread after we delete our responses.
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And yet a one poster necro’d a 3 year and a 5 year posting. Why didnt this team lock those two threads?
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Nothing to see here, move along.
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All moderation is reactive in nature, meaning issues have to be brought to the team’s attention. That’s done with flags.
There has to be enough flags to bring it up the investigation list. So, the one you’re referring to may have only a had a couple flags, or possibly none at all.
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Ah, that makes sense. I’m thankful they locked it and deleted comments rather than took action against the silly person on that thread who jokingly suggested we do more of that bad behaviour.
Thankfully Meteorblade set me straight on necroing and how we’ve been asked not to do it.
I stand corrected like a naughty puppy. But I still made a mess on the spare bed.
Edit: just in case anyone else needs a reminder…
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I’m okay with this thread. An explanation of what happened is harmless and useful information for the others who missed what happened outside of the few who commented (and had their replies deleted) in response to the necroing. I think that “no discussion” is more about people who use alts or whatever to complain about a forum ban or whining about their threads being moderated rather than murdering some feline for seeking information about why an old thread appeared out of nowhere and was locked.
I mean, it might have been nice to have seen a comment on that thread to the effect of “Yo, necroing is very silly and please kindly do not do that thing because it makes us want to plant tridents in your nostrils.” Then we wouldn’t be here right now.
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I’m all in favor of a fair and free debate in a kind and helpful manner, and maybe most important; based on facts.
I have no intention of berating Kea. I think his topic is with honest intentions and based on curiosity only. 
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The funny part is, all of this necroing could be avoided if Blizz simply locked all threads that haven’t been posted in a month or two (whatever their definition of a necro thread is). This way, they are still viewable, just not respondible.
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And this is what nobody can answer. Ask 10 different people what a necro is and you’ll get 10 different answers. We have that one guy who cries “necro!” if someone posts in a week old thread. If the thread is still relevant, it shouldn’t be a problem. If it’s just some thread that has no relevance anymore, that’s another thing, especially when there are “those guys” who you can never seem to please. They’ll cry “necro!” but if you make a new thread, they’ll complain “someone else already made a thread about this 2 months ago! Stop making duplicates!”
But yes, locking threads is something I’ve always advocated. Don’t blame people for something you can control on your own. If you don’t like people posting in old threads, lock them after X amount of time with no new posts.
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Ah, that (and your post before that) seems to be the answer to my wondering. Obviously a lot has happened with that post that I did not see at all.
But does it make “sense” that that thread pops up under “new/unread”? Because that was why I opened it and read it to the end, and then started me wondering… Or did it “just” end up there because of the things I did not see and then it got closed?
Well, doesn’t really matter. Going with the proverb “Let sleeping dogs lie.” (Rare case where the German saying is quite identical: “Schlafende Hunde soll man nicht wecken.”)
On a side note: Why is there a stirred up “discussion” about it… I think it’s not what I always guess; I am too old for this…
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Looks like 2 more of those necro’d threads got locked, too.
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The Discourse software (the back-end that the forums are running on) has this functionality built-in and Blizzard actually have it enabled and functioning on some of their other forums whereby a thread that hasn’t been responded to in 30 days is automatically closed by a server process, i.e. no manual moderation is required. It’s literally just a configuration setting, i.e. on / 30 days, that they could apply to these forums too but they choose not to. So, the reason threads can and do get necro’d is precisely because Blizzard allows them to be.
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Please respect each other when posting on these forums, and follow the Code of Conduct. The thread mentioned in the OP was simply locked after someone necro’d the thread.