Why Are We Necroing Threads?

Like half of all the current threads are from months ago, why are we doing this?

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the one troll does it to recycle his bs and occasionally others search a topic and do it unintentionally

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Because the next class to come out in WoW is the necromancer.

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Somehow I feel like Iā€™m going to be reading this thread again in 6 monthsā€¦

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because when you make a thread you get recommended topics

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Donā€™t you dare, this thread is for here and now

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sets a reminder for a very specific date in 2023

Carry on.

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bookmarked.

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Man I wish.

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No, itā€™s tinker

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Itā€™s spam. Report it as such.

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We are necroing things because Blizzard didnā€™t set threads to auto lock after 30 days like they do on other forums.

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Iā€™ve blocked/muted so many trolls, I havenā€™t noticed any necroing, in my feed :laughing:

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They really should just add bothā€¦

I honestly feel like we shouldnā€™t look at people necroing old threads as a bad thingā€¦ think about itā€¦ people complain to no end about people making ā€œthe umpteenth millionth thread on ____ topicā€ā€¦ so if someone necros a thread thats one less new thread on the same topic.

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*Wonders if there are any ancient piggeh threads he can necroā€¦

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I think 30 days is unnecessarily short. Probably 6 months would be about right. Not forever.

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Itā€™s the strangest things. The EU WoW forums auto lock topics after 30 days except for the topics that got shoved over from the old forums. They have the tech, they know how to do it. Itā€™s clearly a setting somewhere, and Iā€™ve seen some threads set to close after 2 months.

Thereā€™s also (apparently) a setting used in usually bigger threads where if you have players on ignore it auto-hides their post and doesnā€™t even have the ā€˜show hidden messageā€™ button they randomly apply.

I do wonder what other settings there is that they donā€™t regularly implement.

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I mute them so they stop showing up.

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Itā€™s mostly one guy posting on three different characters who spams threads suggesting that Blizzard should add new races, add new mounts, partner with other companies, or add things from other IPs to WoW. He periodically bumps threads that havenā€™t been replied to in anywhere between two days and four weeks, always with some pointless one-sentence drivel as if heā€™s in a Discord conversation. He also has an unhealthy neurotic obsession with Smurfs being in WoW:

Iā€™m genuinely convinced he has some kind of disorder.

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Just to bother you? Thatā€™s good enough for me!

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