Argh, real time communication sounds like bad move to me. Its much better let stuff to sink in and opinions to spread.
Real time communication sounds actually damn fun but disastrous, I kinda hope someone is doing it.
I agree to a point.
Where it comes to bugs, there needs to be a grace period. That being said, the grace period relates to the bug being ongoing and not being fixed, so it is given more time until it is fixed. Otherwise, most general topics have a use by date.
Take it down to autolock after 6 weeks and you have my vote.
Bug Report + Tech Support forums can stay open forever.
But General Discussion is in dire need of automatic lock. Too many nolifer trolls.
Itās gonna get even worse in the future D4 forum, considering the potential number of patches that itāll get in the first 1-2 years alone.
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No argument with any of that 
. I put that up in the random possibility a moderator and or dev might be looking at it because humans have a really bad habit of āall or nothingā.ā¦ Taking the repeating bugs down would be a big mistake so now thereās at least two or more of us saying take the others down faster but do not include bugs in that takedown.
This guy gets it. Its the troll. Blizzard should add Collector Editor Forums. Trolls can go to YouTubers. Or Reddit, theres million places to go.
Whatās funny is, I was actually trying to start a new topic about locking threads that were accused of being ābumpedā and this thread came up in the process. I guess because it is relevant to what I was going to post.
Anyway, my question was going to be, what is considered a bump and what is considered an actual continuation of the discussion? There was recently a āhelloā thread from 2019 that got recent activity and someone accused someone else of bumping it. I asked how could they tell that was the intention? Now, the thread is locked and all the new comments have been deleted.
So I ask here, what is the difference between a bump and a continuation of a conversation? And if you really are just not allowed to post on an old thread, then why wasnāt the original suggestion in this thread taken?
It was most likely locked by a mod because it was a necro bump. Necroing an old thread from over a year ago just to say hello to someone who has not been on the forum in over 16 months, really? I tried to warn him but he did not care. 
Do not ābumpā posts. The act of posting simply to bump a thread is considered spamming. This also includes bumping old threads for no reason (also called ānecroingā).
I understand what bumping a thread is. My question is, how can they determine if that was the reason someone posted on it? I thought it was an actual continuation of the conversation. It was a hello thread, and someone said hello. Granted, saying hello to someone that said hello 2 years ago does not make much sense, but still. Just wondered what the criteria was to determine if the post is legitimate or not.
You were supposed to necro it next year. If it gets bumped every few months it ruins the effect. 
Some people use google, which will suggest a page from the forums that is super old, the person searching does not take note of the date and ātadaā you get some pretty old necros.
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A new thread can simply go unnoticed when thereās alot of posts in a short time or when thereās some post or happening where everyone is concentrating on.
-For example, i plea for a sticky music thread for these reasons.
So, iām against the OP suggestion.
Actual continuation applies when the subject of the thread is still valid and hasnāt been patched out. Like a long-standing bug, or discussing a specific game feature (transmogs list, farming routes for Rainbow gobs etc). And thatās IF the attempt to continue said discussion is intelligent in natureā¦
A spam bump is what the nolifers & alt-account-botters do over at the ZOMG BANWAVE REQUEST thread. Dead horses donāt come back to life. They just bump it by running their mouth and saying nothing intelligent at all.
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what for? to hide Blizzardās inaction? some problems have existed for several years and no one has dealt with them, and so no one even knows that there is a problem in the game. well, except for the blizzard themselves, who have problems
Thatās 90% of this forum.
What would be a super good idea is when someone makes a title, as you know it gives some suggestions on what you may want to ask etc, it should figure out if somewhere in the forum that a topic with a similar title already exists. Letās say I ask about āPrimal Dropsā it will search the entire forum and tag the post. It will show the topic creator, āHereās XX posts that are likely related to your topic.ā then they can choose to post in those topics or ignore it and post their own.
Once they post their own, the mods/cmās can see which posts are related to it and that they ignored it. Then they weigh whether or not they should have posted a new topic. If they deem it unnecessary, then they can flag that account. Give them say 5-10 flags before giving a day timeout along with a week or something to remove 1 flag on itās own, so unless youāre spamming topics, you wonāt ever get banned.
Hopefully I explained that well enough.
Youāre far too generousā¦
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10 post per customer, that should increase the quality of the forum. Currently its the spammers who get the action.
Says the guy who just bumped a thread that was inactive for a year.
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Well this isnt about me. Im perfectly fine with the forum or no.
Forums could be so much more professional and commercial, thats my point.