About 4 days ago, I created a thread on General Discussion, in regards to Blood Elves with Blue Eyes, thread got deleted, I got a short forum vacation. I submitted a ticket, but got told there already a thread about the same topic. So, I have spoken to BlizzardCS on Twitter about the issue after the reply from the ticket, and the replies have really left me confused.
First reply after the post to BlizzardCS
“It isn’t good to bump very old threads, but adding to existing ones is always preferable to creating multiples on the same topic.”
Then the seond reply was:
“It isn’t ‘bumping’ to actually add to the conversation - but at the same time, if a thread has dropped back or is more than a week - month old, probably best to make a new thread.”
Now, I created a new thread 4 days ago, because the same topic from another thread was 20 days inactive before it was bumped some few hours after my forum vacation. But this is leaving me really confused now, because the 2nd reply contradicts the 1st reply from Blizzard, and now I am officially confused on what is really classed as thread bumping and what is classed as contributing to a thread, considering that is sort of the reply I got in the ticket I submitted.
Depending on the forums you post on, but bumping old threads for whatever reason is discouraged. Most of the time the discussion is played out or the information in the thread is no long relevant. A general guideline is if the thread is more that a few weeks old, start a new one.
That is the reply I got from BlizzardCS on Twitter, but it wasn’t what was said to me when I submitted a ticket a few days ago. And rather not go into details about that ticket, because than that will be discussing about the moderation.
If you created a new thread and it got deleted and you earned a break from the forums, means we are not getting all the information. You don’t get forum timeout for posting a well discussed topic. Only a blue can answer that and they are not gonna be in til around 8-10 PST.
And as rules of thumb, both those Twitter replies are correct.
You seem to be very focused on one very specific topic. There is a megathread available, and you’ve started your own on more than one occassion. I’d strongly suggest keeping any comments you wish to make in that thread.