PSA: Beware of the Necro Threads

[Godzillaxpowerrangers]

Only if you say a bad word.

Or mention or talk about otters.

[Enla]

Or mention or talk about -snip-.

We don't mention that forbidden word here.

Legit though if the troll started talking about said marine animal the mods would step in almost immediately. The mods are very lax generally but they have a few bugbears that cause them to immediately reach for the ban hammer instead of simply deleting posts. Though in this case they aren't even doing that.

[Raven2014]

More effectively is people just self-discipline. Trolls want attention, and they're getting attention. If you think they care about negative or positive attention, you're wrong.

And no, they will not get banned for necrotic thread for the same reason why nothing will happen to people who have multiple houses in the game. "It's not against the rule". Is there a section in the TOS saying it's against the rule to necro thread? No, then that's that. Mass reporting the person doing it wouldn't do anything either no matter how much annoying you think it is. And if you think that's bad, I should remind you things work that way for a reason. Be it GMs or Moderators, you want those people to strictly follow set rules and not simply acting on a heuristic manner, regardless how wrong or how annoying a behavior is.


A few of the forums I visited have a fix rule against necroing, even when the person doing it is not trolling. Any post that necro thread that is 6+ months old since last post immediately get locked with the moderator say something like "it has been a while since the last post, and any old argument had been exhausted. Feel free to make a new thread on the same topic if you want to engage in fresh discussion". I think it's a very good rule and if we want, we can try to make the case of something similar being introduced to the TOS here. But prior to that, nothing the mods can do about it. In fact, I wouldn't want the mods to overstep their duty to hand out judgement for something outside of the rulebook.

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

Helluuuuuuuu

[Shinklet]

Honestly can't wait for 1/2 years to necro this thread

[Iscah]

Funny how we suddenly have multiple new-or-returned posters bumping old threads.

Either they walked in at a really awkward time, or some people have too much time or money to spend...

[Theodric]

Funny how we suddenly have multiple new-or-returned posters bumping old threads.

Either they walked in at a really awkward time, or some people have too much time or money to spend...

It's likely a case of copycat 'crimes'. The initial problem has been going on for a while now, so some other posters have probably figured out they can get away with it too.

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

It looks like the culprit has been banned and all his posts and threads removed.

[Ammokkx]

It looks like the culprit has been banned and all his posts and threads removed.

I knew something was off when I didn't spot a single troll or necro thread for a good while.

[LaylaTsarra]

It looks like the culprit has been banned and all his posts and threads removed.

Well hopefully for good. Amazing how some get banned for next to nothing and someone like this can run around for weeks doing stuff annoying most everyone.