Quote Originally Posted by Canadane View Post
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.
I can see how people are annoyed that the front page has in effect been taken over at times but personally feel along this lines... I hope in the attempt to control that specific person that we also don't end up getting a bunch of random rules too.