What happened to the Community Reps and Moderators on here?

[RyuDragnier]

I agree the 2 weeks is too short a time frame for locking, but things that haven't been interacted with for over a year should probably be locked, maybe two years at the most, due to changes in the game and potentially outdated information causing mass confusion.

I feel like this should also be from subforum to subforum. The Lore subforum we'll often get people finding old information that a lot of us forgot from in the archives, or new info will bring an old thread back into the limelight. It would be a shame for old threads to be locked there just because new information is given outside of the time frame.

[Iscah]

I feel like this should also be from subforum to subforum. The Lore subforum we'll often get people finding old information that a lot of us forgot from in the archives, or new info will bring an old thread back into the limelight. It would be a shame for old threads to be locked there just because new information is given outside of the time frame.

You've ended up with the wrong person on the quote tag there, but yes, there's value in keeping threads open because they can go dormant and then become relevant again and the conversation picks back up again. I've been on other forums that lock "inactive" threads and it just kills discussions in slow-moving parts of the forum.

[Avatre]

I feel like this should also be from subforum to subforum. The Lore subforum we'll often get people finding old information that a lot of us forgot from in the archives, or new info will bring an old thread back into the limelight. It would be a shame for old threads to be locked there just because new information is given outside of the time frame.

You've ended up with the wrong person on the quote tag there, but yes, there's value in keeping threads open because they can go dormant and then become relevant again and the conversation picks back up again. I've been on other forums that lock "inactive" threads and it just kills discussions in slow-moving parts of the forum.

I'm sure they could code it so that it would be based on the section of the forums.

For the Lore section, yes, that shouldn't be locked because the lore doesn't change with updates to the game. Since a LOT of the necros are happening to things that have changed, or being done to things with comments that are basically making fun of people, the General Discussion definitely needs to have threads locked after a stretch of time of them being inactive.

[Iscah]

For the Lore section, yes, that shouldn't be locked because the lore doesn't change with updates to the game. Since a LOT of the necros are happening to things that have changed, or being done to things with comments that are basically making fun of people, the General Discussion definitely needs to have threads locked after a stretch of time of them being inactive.

But again, that could also be solved with the moderators actually stopping those specific threads in their tracks – ideally when first posted, and certainly once they've been bumped for no good purpose besides reawakening the argument. It's not hard to see what's going on with them.

[Avatre]

But again, that could also be solved with the moderators actually stopping those specific threads in their tracks – ideally when first posted, and certainly once they've been bumped for no good purpose besides reawakening the argument. It's not hard to see what's going on with them.

That requires the almost non-existent moderators to do their actual jobs though. With how wild west the forums are these days, they are part-part-part-part time. As in MAYBE an hour or two bi-weekly.

[Iscah]

That requires the almost non-existent moderators to do their actual jobs though.

Precisely.

[kaynide]

I feel like this should also be from subforum to subforum. The Lore subforum we'll often get people finding old information that a lot of us forgot from in the archives, or new info will bring an old thread back into the limelight. It would be a shame for old threads to be locked there just because new information is given outside of the time frame.

As I said the ideas I said were ones that exist, not necessarily that they were good.

On this though, I’m not sure 2 weeks is the right answer either, but it would be nice to lock stuff away after some amount of time. If the topic becomes relevant again, a new thread can always link/refer to it. Or mods can flag certain posts to keep them open. (Doubt they’ll pay mods to do this though)

Not really any good answer, but honestly on this forum there are only a handful of inactive topics worth keeping open, and most of those could easily just be referred to in a new thread.