Well Wolfy, if this thread was indeed relegated to Necropolis (the city of the dead / west bank of the Nile River in Egyptian mythology), then it should have indeed been locked. Perhaps such threads should be posted in a "morgue" forum, where the dead can be honored (by being read) without being disturbed (via posting by such as I who were unaware of it's state at the time.)Also, wasn't this supposed to be locked long ago as a necro thread?
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I guess "Theme" threads such as this one and other similar threads should be exempt from the necro policy.... They could be relegated to their own subforum if that is our new thing... Some sort of "What's your take on this?" subforum...
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Were we still going to be going through with this suggestion? Since it got lost in the discussion of where to put the modding forums >.>
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I don't believe that post in particular is worthy of necro. However long term posts from 2-4 years ago I don't think is helpful opening up again. Especially with the changes that have occurred.
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I was referring to long term topics, like "What is you favourite XXX", or "How do I get most XXX"... basically, topics that don't really suffer from being left alone.Ttech wrote:However long term posts from 2-4 years ago I don't think is helpful opening up again.
For an example of a forum that has an entire subforum that works like this, look at the Arch Linux Try This forum. While I don't think we need such an entire forum, I do think it illustrates fine which type of thread does not suffer from necromancy.
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In those cases, they likely should be made sticky and kept as long as possible until the information becomes mostly inaccurate.alterecco wrote:I was referring to long term topics, like "What is you favourite XXX", or "How do I get most XXX"... basically, topics that don't really suffer from being left alone.Ttech wrote:However long term posts from 2-4 years ago I don't think is helpful opening up again.
For an example of a forum that has an entire subforum that works like this, look at the Arch Linux Try This forum. While I don't think we need such an entire forum, I do think it illustrates fine which type of thread does not suffer from necromancy.
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Sticky topics are bad (unless absolutely required)... they make everything else sink down... If you looked at the forum I pointed to you will see that the forum has few stickies, and lots of very long running threads, with lots of outdated info... but that is ok, because that is the premise.
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I don't know if I necessarily agree with long running information on ArchLinux forums especially due to information regarding packages chaining so often but other things I don't necessarily think it shouldn't be policy if it works. Stickies I could see the issue though without any hesitation.