Should necro threads be split (the new section being put into its own thread with a title post indicating the context?) to avoid confusion? It's rather annoying to see a thread rise up from the depths and not realize it and think *omg! XYZ returned!* and then make a post directed at them... only to moments later realize that ABC, DEF, and PQR have also all returned. And then realize that, 'oh, it's a necro thread'.
And then a lot of newbies will also unwittingly reply people up in the thread who have not posted in ages.
Or they will resurrect threads from back when veteran members of the community were newbies and saying really newbie things that they knew the answer to a million times over by now... -_-
(OH! another big issue is ressurecting threads detailing old, resolved issues/bugs/tactics that can result in people being severely mislead.)
Splitting necro threads to avoid confusion?
anything more than 1 year old should be locked. We should keep it for archive purposes but most of the content of those threads are usually obsolete and cause more confusion than help.
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^ Too many threads are really outdated or just far too old to be relevant. Some weapons/tactics are no longer in Trans etc.Prophet wrote:anything more than 1 year old should be locked. We should keep it for archive purposes but most of the content of those threads are usually obsolete and cause more confusion than help.
Archive them.
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PHPBB2 is a bit too primitive for a lot of those things, though I can deal with individual threads by splitting off the new post made so the rest of the thread sinks back to the bottom.
So 1 year?
We can try that out.
So 1 year?
We can try that out.
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Might want to put up an announcement about that (just so people know)
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