PSA: Beware of the Necro Threads

[Cilia]

Remember the ancient internet adage: "Don't feed the trolls."

Unfortunately, the fact people have unexpressed opinions on "subjects" brought up or resurrected from the dead guarantees their success. (I use the term "subject" here very loosely because anyone who's been on the internet for any significant length of time can see a troll for what it is; people either don't realize it or don't care.)

Banning the account(s) won't work; s/he can just make new ones. Making a set archival date will just limit how far back s/he can go back (and is an unpopular move besides, apparently). Short of moderator intervention only ignoring such a character will produce results; apparently the moderators don't want to / can't do anything about it and people lack the discipline to ignore the troll in question.

Noble as your intentions may be, making a PSA thread warning the rest of the forum about the troll that has taken up residence here is only increases their visibility, which is precisely their objective. The only way to win this game is not to play.

[Nestama]

I feel the PSA's goal is not only to let people know of a certain troll resurrecting threads, but to also encourage people to actively start focusing on when the thread was made, who the most previous poster was and if they do click into it, see if a certain someone was the necromancer.

All that said, I haven't been visiting these forums lately because I'm just seeing old controversial opinion threads popping up again and there's no real discussion going on in them since the OP people immediately respond to most likely doesn't visit the forums any more themselves, or quit the game long ago. Can't feed a troll if the troll makes people leave :/

[AduroT]

Either the mods don’t care, or are just too lazy to do their damn jobs.

[Edax]

At least he's considerate this time, spamming at 3:30 AM in the morning.

[Rannie]

And just in time before all of the NEW housing threads complaining about the same thing pop up... oh wait they already started

[Edax]

Don't let the troll convince you to give into the hate y'all. That path leads to the dark side.

[Rannie]

Don't let the troll convince you to give into the hate y'all. That path leads to the dark side.

But I was always told if I joined the Darkside, I would get cookies... or atleast a cookie

[hynaku]

Maybe they should fix it where if a thread has no posts for over 30 days it gets deleted from the forums. It also doesn't bother me go to other pages to read posts there.

[Cilia]

Maybe they should fix it where if a thread has no posts for over 30 days it gets deleted from the forums. It also doesn't bother me go to other pages to read posts there.

A thread suggesting archival after 3+ months of inactivity was not well appreciated. Even if the devs were actually listening, it's doubtful that would happen.

[SeanCody]

Maybe they should fix it where if a thread has no posts for over 30 days it gets deleted from the forums. It also doesn't bother me go to other pages to read posts there.

exactly, they should just delete every thread that has no reply after 30 days