Forum - View topicOld threads are only kept for "study purposes"?
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daxomni
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The last time this came up I recall hearing that old threads could be revived so long as the person reviving them actually contributed something tangible to the discussion instead of just giving a written equivalent of a high-five and walking away. But now I see that the anti-revival theme is still alive and well. A mere month is apparently the maximum length of time that even the most informative and insightful threads can remain dormant before becoming written into stone while far less worthy threads are allowed to exist, at least in part, simply because they're new? Giving people a chance to see the whole history of a discussion helps to avoid blindly retreading over the same ground again and again. Now, obviously there will be people who do not take advantage of this opportunity, but at least it's there. A forum that has so many eternally sticky threads but is at the same time so anti-revival toward other threads just doesn't make much sense to me. If keeping old discussions alive is helpful for some threads, why is it not helpful for others? If age is what matters most when deciding what can be revived and what cannot, then why not just have every thread expire automatically? At least that way the mods won't have to bother checking dates to see what can remain. (This isn't from any of my posts, I'm just an observer who's questioning the logic of putting so much weight on the specific date a thread was last posted in.) |
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Tony K.
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I was tired after standing at a cash register for almost 8 hours straight, so I had trouble thinking of the proper term.
What I meant is some topics can be found in the "All Discussion Threads" thread for people who'd like to "study" old topics. However, that doesn't mean they can necro post in something that is almost a year old because many of those users have probably moved beyond the level of thinking they had back then. In the particular case of that topic (Gankutsuou), there was a more recent thread that the user could've posted in (made within the last month, I think). So yeah, same subject content, but wrong time frame to put it in. If it's some really obscure title that hasn't had much buzz around the forums that gets revived, I'd take that into consideration next time. But the user could've easily done a search to find a more recent one to reply to instead of something from February. |
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