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Hey Cryptic, please close all threads that have been gathering dust.

emacsheadroomemacsheadroom Member Posts: 994 Arc User
I have concluded that necro posters are willfully trolling the forums. It takes serious determination and effort to sift back through years of threads to find that one thread that was once talking about what the necro wants to talk about now. Nobody cares that much about their subject du jour and yet is too timid to start their own thread.

So Devs, please write an algorithm or do whatever techno-wizardry thing you guys do for the forums that will close and lock all threads that have not been posted in for at least one month, perhaps two.

Also, please subject all necro posters to a three day forum ban with an email telling them not to necro threads, or else.

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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    If they were to actually upgrade the forums to the new version of vBulletin, it has plugins that can auto close threads while leaving stickies open. I've tried to tell them this before. No luck so far.
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  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,376 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Close this thread too. :P
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  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    lan451 wrote: »
    If they were to actually upgrade the forums to the new version of vBulletin, it has plugins that can auto close threads while leaving stickies open. I've tried to tell them this before. No luck so far.

    They can't be bothered with anything that doesn't get the "big profits here" label from their almighty metrics. :rolleyes:
  • emacsheadroomemacsheadroom Member Posts: 994 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    thay8472 wrote: »
    Close this thread too. :P

    You must be one of those DAMN DIRTY NECRO POSTERS. :mad:
  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    lan451 wrote: »
    If they were to actually upgrade the forums to the new version of vBulletin, it has plugins that can auto close threads while leaving stickies open. I've tried to tell them this before. No luck so far.

    You can't even edit your post and get a 'No thread specified' upon return. Very indicative of Cryptic's attitude in general: they don't care about fixing/improving the existing stuff. So, good luck trying to get them to spend 5 minutes on auto-closing necro threads.
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I have concluded that necro posters are willfully trolling the forums. It takes serious determination and effort to sift back through years of threads to find that one thread that was once talking about what the necro wants to talk about now.

    You can safely take off that tinfoil hat now. People simply use Google to type in a few terms, and it sometimes brings em to a necro thread. It happens.
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  • eazzieeazzie Member Posts: 4,500 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Just to make you aware guys. Discussing forum moderating in any way is actually a violation of the TOS.

    Threads discussing moderation are closed down.
  • askrayaskray Member Posts: 3,329 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    What eazzie said.

    /Closed.
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