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#1 wzrds3

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Posted 20 March 2005 - 09:56 PM

While I was in a prolonged period of boredom, I tried to find the old posts of a short-lived, improper grammar using member named LesMiz (how I linked her to her physical identity, I don't know). I noticed that those topics were not locked. No one had posted on them in over a year and it bothers me that anyone could post on them. I think those topics should be put behind us like a bad date.

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#2 The Journalist

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Posted 20 March 2005 - 09:59 PM

A lot of topics didn't get locked that could have, and a lot of topics got locked that shouldn't have [cough]eRP[/cough]. It's just life.

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#3 Cippy

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Posted 20 March 2005 - 10:14 PM

I think that the members of ATT can figure out when to let a topic go. There are topics that just get old and forgotten without SA locking them. Besides, sometimes we get into some really good convos, whether they're linked to the original topic or not.

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#4 Sundered Angel

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Posted 20 March 2005 - 10:44 PM

I don't have time to lock every topic which falls off the front page. It's much easier for people not to dig up old topics.

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#5 wzrds3

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Posted 21 March 2005 - 12:56 AM

It doesn't bother me that people will reply to old topics, it's the fact that people can reply to them. If someone replies to a two-year-old message and doesn't write something with relevance, I'd be pretty ticked.

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#6 Guest_Swithich_*

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Posted 21 March 2005 - 01:52 AM

This has already been discussed on the EVN forum. Check out the topic "Gravedigging". It's about a week old.

#7 Cippy

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Posted 21 March 2005 - 10:16 AM

Swithich, on Mar 21 2005, 01:52 AM, said:

This has already been discussed on the EVN forum. Check out the topic "Gravedigging". It's about a week old.

Just don't gravedig it/

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#8 Avatara

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Posted 21 March 2005 - 02:53 PM

Locking every topic that's six weeks old is possible, but time consuming and can be rather tedious.

Besides, its much more fun to "punish" the gravedigger with a variety of new "interrogation" tools at hand than it is to just lock all topics.

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Posted 21 March 2005 - 04:23 PM

I think forum members generally know when a topic is dead, and thus refrain from posting in it.

Can you imagine if I was deranged?

#10 dude3

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Posted 21 March 2005 - 06:24 PM

No. Furthermore, I feel all topics should be unlocked once they reach a certain age.

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Posted 21 March 2005 - 08:50 PM

I encourage members to dig up old topics as long as they have something substantial to add to them.

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Posted 21 March 2005 - 09:00 PM

Ah, but there's the rub. Keep in mind that on ATT a post of more than a couple of lines is more substantial than most. Who's to say that what the gravedigger feels is a substantial contribution actually is a substantial contribution?

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#13 moonunit4eva

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Posted 21 March 2005 - 11:23 PM

Fair point..that person very well being me.

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Posted 22 March 2005 - 11:31 AM

Why not set a minimum post count for replying after a certain amount of time?
Maybe we need a new webboard engine to do that. That way you don't get newbs that gravedig for their first post and similar. As for repeat offenders... IDK wat to do with them.

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#15 Captaintripps

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Posted 22 March 2005 - 12:13 PM

We are.

Sundered Angel, on Mar 21 2005, 09:00 PM, said:

Who's to say that what the gravedigger feels is a substantial contribution actually is a substantial contribution?

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Posted 22 March 2005 - 12:34 PM

I think most posters are aware of the way the webboard system works. For those who don't we could simply put up a topic saying, "This is why this is the way it is," if such a topic hasn't already been put up and pinned. Similiar to your etiquette topic, Sundered Angel.

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Posted 22 March 2005 - 02:04 PM

Captaintripps, on Mar 22 2005, 05:13 PM, said:

We are.

I was going to say, isn't that the point of a moderator? To dicern what is and is not allowed on a forum.

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Posted 22 March 2005 - 03:48 PM

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I was going to say, isn't that the point of a moderator? To dicern what is and is not allowed on a forum.

Yes. However, moderators, like everybody else, do not have unlimited time. Many would agree that addional measures wouldn't hurt, but you'd have to talk to el Presidente to implement them.

Actually, it wouldn't hurt to be able to throw gravedug topics to the other side of the list after locking them.

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Posted 22 March 2005 - 05:30 PM

Andrew could always do a bit of fiddling and automatically lock old topics in the database...

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#20 Avatara

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Posted 22 March 2005 - 06:04 PM

Why does it matter. Sometimes gravedigging is good and useful. Not necessarily on this forum, but many others.

And it takes far more time to lock every old topic than it does to delete the one or two users that gravedig an occasional topic. Its not like necrophilia involving old topics is rampant around here.

#21 Cippy

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Posted 22 March 2005 - 08:09 PM

Maybe there should be a warning. If some n00B is gonna post in an old topic, a board message should come up: You are gravedigging! THe penalty for this crime is death! Do you want to continue?

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