Anti Necro Posting

[Lîlithvia-moon-guard]

Some cheeses are too squishy for cheese racing.

[Koloi-moon-guard]

That’s a good question. We need to dream of cheese more

you can never have too much cheese

[Nobully-blackrock (Nobully)]

@Toolatenow-earthen-ring

Isn’t that exactly what they do now?

no.
the only time old threads get manually locked, is when someone necros them.

@Toolatenow-earthen-ring

What do you mean how is it not relevant?

information becomes outdated.
when it’s outdated, it’s no longer relevant.

@Toolatenow-earthen-ring

I have this problem that this person had the EXACT PROBLEM UNDER THE EXACT CIRCUMSTANCES. Who cares if it’s a year down the road, it’s still a problem.

you may THINK it’s the same problem, but when it comes to bugs etc, just because it’s happening under similar circumstances, doesn’t mean it’s the same bug.

@Toolatenow-earthen-ring

So FAQ’s, documented problems and such in IT are all stupid things to do because year old or more?

it depends on the environment.
and yes, a lot of IT stuff is outdated within the span of a year.

@Lîlithvia-moon-guard

Some cheeses are too squishy for cheese racing.

soft cheeses don’t need to be excluded from sport.
replace peanut butter with feta?

[Trivenom-dalaran]

but it seems like 60 or 90 days is more than enough time.

…just as long as we don’t then get a penalty for “duplicate threads” when the old thread has been dead this long.

[Lîlithvia-moon-guard]

thanks for the idea, I took you up on it a month later

[Mevaar-destromath]

@Evevica-moon-guard

So who’s bookmarking this topic for later?

@Lîlithvia-moon-guard

thanks for the idea, I took you up on it a month later

Are you two doing ok? I’m a little worry because it’s been awhile and you haven’t checked in with us…

@Zathel-moon-guard

Anti Necro Posting

I couldn’t agree more bruddah!

[Kiralia-saurfang]

@Dumb-sargeras

I wouldn’t want to reply to it in the first place

You may not reply to old, outdated info or irrelevant threads, but there are plenty of people that do

[Sylvaron-emerald-dream (Sylvaron)]

@Zathel-moon-guard

automatically lock one month after the first reply

I think one month after the most recent reply would be good. I wouldn’t want to see an active thread locked a month after the first response.

Edit:

@Kaivax

right timeframe for a thread to close after its last post, but it seems like 60 or 90 days is more than enough time.

Saw this. That sounds good. Either would be plenty of time.

[Mevaar-destromath]

Now why would you go and quote a blue and draw their attention to this?

[Sylvaron-emerald-dream (Sylvaron)]

Why not? I didn’t even notice the blue response until after I originally posted.

[Liana-maelstrom]

@Kaivax

But the setting isn’t by-region. It’s by-forum. And we can test it on a specific forum, if we want to. For instance, a bug report forum is a place where we’ve read every post extensively, and perhaps don’t want older threads revived when a player experiences something new.

That could be useful. Can you also do a manual lock, so you could lock older threads when a new patch or expansion came out?

[Bravik-argent-dawn]

Thread title, your post 4 months later…

The irony.

[Mevaar-destromath]

No irony intended here, I agreed with what OP said.

@Mevaar-destromath

@Zathel-moon-guard

Anti Necro Posting

I couldn’t agree more bruddah!

[Elisaweta-ravencrest]

I’ll necro until the say they give me a necromancer class for real… a caster undead master

[Arandi-moon-guard (Arandi)]

Here’s one that you should leave alone because it is now our official time capsule.

Can't Get into Ragefire Chasm

This thread will now be the official GD time capsule. Hello to the future! Hope we’ll all still be here!

[Zoxpox-proudmoore]

They don’t like necro posts because it shows how much has not been fixed or addressed.

[anon61321586]

@Kaivax

I was actually just discussing this with a colleague yesterday. We didn’t immediately agree on the right timeframe for a thread to close after its last post, but it seems like 60 or 90 days is more than enough time.

Since this thread is brought back, I just want to say that I am in support of “necro posting” rather than creating a new thread if it’s the same topic.

The forum just needs to be consistent with directing people to “new” posts in the thread and people should be aware of posting dates so they can choose which posts they want to reply to.

Also, certain posts, no matter how old, could be useful to respond to, like if they’re an unanswered question. Someone else with the same question could see the new response.

[Trustlvlfour-haomarush]

@Zoxpox-proudmoore

They don’t like necro posts because it shows how much has not been fixed or addressed.

Partially true imo. There’s a section water texture in a river that is outfight deleted in Hillsbrad for like the last 5+ years. Imagine a river and then water goes poof for a chunk and then magically reappears and continues on. Its stupid stuff like this that never. ever. gets fixed because the bean counters at blizz hq refuse to authorize any dev time on anything that isn’t affecting current expac. This is how great games die.

[Zoxpox-proudmoore]

@Trustlvlfour-haomarush

Its stupid stuff like this that never. ever. gets fixed because the bean counters at blizz hq refuse to authorize any dev time on anything that isn’t affecting current expac. This is how great games die.

Not sure it is just money. Remember we have been told time and time again that devs don’t interact with the customer, the use cs reps (forum blues) to get them information and if the cs rep does not care about the topic, it never gets passed along.

[Dumb-sargeras (Dumb)]

@Kiralia-saurfang

You may not reply to old, outdated info or irrelevant threads, but there are plenty of people that do

Removing forum functionality for people who are smart enough to use it properly because of a few bad apples who aren’t able to read isn’t the answer.

This thread is a great example of a post that a lot of people suggest should’ve been auto-locked, yet there are still relevant conversations going. If any of the recent responses made a new thread–as some people suggest is better–it would’ve been wholly unnecessary and, more importantly, lost the flow of the conversation within this thread (and probably not gotten responses).