thread necromancy

How should necromanced threads be dealt with

  • leave them alone

    Votes: 39 70.9%

  • lock them

    Votes: 5 9.1%

  • other

    Votes: 11 20.0%
  • Total voters
    55
Lorien

Lorien

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please help shape moderation policy for C&H with your vote

if you have anything you'd like to say about this topic, please do so
 
There is NO thread that needs to be brought back to life after six months without a post. Anyone who wants to discuss anything at all need only start a new thread.
 
I voted 'Leave them alone'.

At worst, an old thread is an annoyance. We click on it, it's OLD news or the hapless poster didn't 'get' that the thread is now irrelevant...

...or is it? At best it's new and enlightening to someone who may have missed it.

Take the importance of that ol' 'Wheelers Steel' (?) WIP. Some topics have value in revisiting. Not all do.

Is it an old thread? Yes. Is it an old TOPIC? Maybe not.

A comment in an EXISTING thread is far, far easier than starting a new one. Human nature.

I don't see an epidemic of necro-threads propagating C&HK. Is the locking too harsh because of the annoyance? The ONLY rationale for locking is to prevent further responses. For someone responding, they feel it's relevant. If locking chases people away then it's a larger evil.

If not interested, after you open it once, pass and don't return. :rolleyes:

Nothing ought to be hard and fast, but I'd err on the side of leaving it alone.

(However, sometimes if it's all too much; LOCK IT.)
 
Lorien said:
please help shape moderation policy for C&H with your vote

if you have anything you'd like to say about this topic, please do so
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The fact that you cared enough to seek out the opinions of the members here on this long-debated topic before taking a hard line gives me all the confidence I need in you to make the appropriate decision.

I'm perfectly comfortable leaving this up to your discretion.
 
I voted leave them alone. I've seen newbies, full of fire, just getting into the game, comment on an old thread he's excited about, only to get his nuts chewed off. Why take the wind out of a guy's sails when he's excited about something?
 
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The forum is so slow they really do no harm. Is there any more to be said or has it all been said?
Why care if a new post contributes accidentally to an old thread?
 
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With how much of a decline in participation there has been on this forums custom section, i would say let it ride. if someone brings back from the dead an old thread, that's better than page 1 having 5 day old 'recent' posts.
 
Thanks for bringing up the topic Lorien - its something I have thought about using the forum - TK's post echos my thoughts.
Personally I like necro threads - this forum is a vault of knowledge and history, why would only new posts be considered valid.
 
I'm glad I asked!
The mod role is still pretty new to me, and I've found that there's a lot of room for interpretation and freedom to make the call. I don't have an authoritarian impulse, but I tend to approach my responsibilities with a thoroughness that even I find annoying at times.
One note, at the risk of airing laundry, is that the past few years have been quite challenging for us, and I know that some of that angst has spilled out in some of my posts and messages. That's all in the past, and my goal moving forward is to be the best steward of this forum that I can be.
 
Leave it up to the moderators. Back when this forum was extremely busy it did get annoying when some treads years old were resurrected, however I don't see it as and issue now.
 
Lorien said:
I'm glad I asked!
The mod role is still pretty new to me, and I've found that there's a lot of room for interpretation and freedom to make the call. I don't have an authoritarian impulse, but I tend to approach my responsibilities with a thoroughness that even I find annoying at times.
One note, at the risk of airing laundry, is that the past few years have been quite challenging for us, and I know that some of that angst has spilled out in some of my posts and messages. That's all in the past, and my goal moving forward is to be the best steward of this forum that I can be.
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I can completely understand that reasoning ... and I guess I would lean towards the route of a case by case basis ...

some threads if they are full of useless ramblings of threads gone terribly off track ...

but some old threads contain a lot of information about knives many have long forgotten ... until an old knife found in a garage sale sparks someone to search for information ... and they can serve as a collection of great info.
 
I'm a heavy lurker, seldom poster in C&H but I voted to leave them alone. Sometimes the responses are a bigger annoyance than the initial necromancy.

I'm with T.K. as far as why take the wind out of someone's sails if they found something they felt compelled to comment on in the search function? Otherwise it can feel like an echo chamber and make folks hesitate to post instead of welcoming them in. The forum platform is the slow lane of social media and getting slower every day. I'm off on a tangent now so I'll leave it at that.
 
J. Doyle said:
The fact that you cared enough to seek out the opinions of the members here on this long-debated topic before taking a hard line gives me all the confidence I need in you to make the appropriate decision.

I'm perfectly comfortable leaving this up to your discretion.
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I’m with him :)
 
I voted “other”. I think it should be up to the mods to decide to lock it or leave it be.

Some folks will jump all over somebody for creating a new thread asking a well discussed topic (USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION NOOB!!!?!?!!!), but then bitch when they actually DO use the search function and bump an old thread.
 
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