Can you PLEASE institute a similar system to that which is on the other forums of closing a post if it has no comments within a 2 month period.
The amount of necro’d posts on GD is becoming tedious. I mean seriously, it is that difficult to do?
I’ll arrange delivery of some pizzas with pineapple to your workplace. Might be a little stale coming from Sydney but hey, its the thought right???
Report those players, after enough infractions those players won’t be necro’ing any posts since they’ll be on vacation from this forum.
I agree with you, but there might be a reason they don’t do it outside of any type of difficulty. Also fun fact, EU GD has it 
Example thread
I doubt threatening them will do you any good.
I dont believe it is against any rule to comment on an old post.
i do wish all forums did that. it gets veeeeeeeeeeeery annoying when a noob or a troll necros a post thats a few months to a year (or more) old
but as others have said, just report the necro and move on
Even the EU WoW forums have it.
Here’s the Blizzard forums CoC link -
There is nothing that specifically comments on the “necro” but you can tell no one reads it or enforces it because of
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I think of it every time someone just links to reddit with no new original thought on the topic.
As for the specific part of commenting on old topics, it’s usually just frowned upon because patches or changes may have made the information no longer applicable.
Edit: wow tired can’t even paste the right part of the CoC or spell properly.
They can barely do their job as is, so don’t hold your breath on this one.
It’s not. Also even if a post is old doesn’t not mean it is any less true. Sadly there is some clowns out there that think that this kind of action should be a thing.
Help us all if they think that way irl not just for a game.
Leave the necromancers alone, they’re the secret new class.
EU forums has somthing to prevent necros… I’ve seen some stuff here on certain threads that state thread will auto close if no posts happen in x time.
I think 6 months to a year is more reasonable, as long as it’s easy to link to a relevant post. When someone tries to do that there should be a popup suggesting they link to the post only if it’s relevant. A lot of necros are by people who got some sort of inspiration about a current problem that actually has nothing to do with that old thread.
There is nothing to stop anyone making a new post, and even linking to an old one. If it is closed within a short period of time it stops people repeatedly pulling up old posts because if you leave it at 6 months, and someone posts a comment at 5.9 months, then again its open for another 6 months.
Go sleepy lil mage.
Rockkkk uh bye Muuuute-y, in da comfy bed…
visions of treaties all in ur head…
sleepy sleepy sleeeeepy
drift off to dream…
nothing at all is bad as it seems…
I still think 6 months is a reasonable timeframe, while 1-2 months means you are relegating current discussion to a ghetto you want to hide.
Oh goodness that was hours ago and I’m still sitting here on Discord with other GD peoples talking about double fisting pickles from the fridge in my undies. What a day, ya’all. 
How long do post stay on the front few pages after posting? Most of them disappear from view very fast, unless they are popular mega-type posts, and if they are popular and keep getting relevant input, they will stay open.
So I dont really get your point. As I say, you can always make a new post with up to date info and link closed ones if needed. But anyhow, since other forums do it on a one or two month basis, Id still be happy to go with that personally.
yeah it really depends. i can see the “no necros” rule being useful for threads that no longer apply – questions about broken things that were hotfixed 3 years ago being bumped by somebody with an unrelated issue, or whatever. but it’s stupid to describe somebody posting in a “we want gnome DHs” thread from 3 days ago to say “yeah, i want them too” as necroing a thread. that post is much better than a brand new thread to say the same thing.
Quite the visual…!
