Quote Originally Posted by Unholychinchilla View Post
If the thread is only locked (rather than deleted) after it hasn't had new posts for a certain amount of time, then it can still be linked to in the first post of a new thread by somebody who wishes to revisit the discussion.

This provides the same benefit as necroing but removes a lot of the confusion that results when people don't notice the dates on early posts and start responding to statements that were made before significant changes to the game and/or buy people who may not have looked at the forums in a long time. This is what I've seen done on other forums where threads have been auto-locked after a certain amount of time inactive. It doesn't prevent discussion but it does cut down on confusion that tends to come with necroing.
I really do fail to see the upside to this idea.
You can respond to someone without needing that person to ever see your response. It still provides benefit to a third party reader. It'll stop segregation of information, and keep discussion linear and chronological.
Just because someone right now is going around bumping old topics, or in the terms here, necroing, a lot doesn't mean it's a bad thing in general.

A lot of old message boards had such asinine rules. "Hey going to lock this topic because you didn't use the search function." and you go to search for what you were asking and you have some locked year old topic with half answered posts. Or the worst contender is when someone has a bespoke problem that you happened to have but the only response was from the original topic creator replying to himself "figured it out" without any actual explanation.

The idea of a public forum is not discussion between two people. It is a public platform (as public as this place can be, needing a game account), to allow others to comment, or simply just silently view. The age of a post should not have any bearing on if it should be replyable or not.