Forum Auto-Lock

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:07 pm

Phade wrote:The threads will still there to view and read whenever you like. The threads aren't being deleted at all. The thing is if nobody cares about the thread within 3 months, why would they suddenly care to post after that? If they do care, why not create a new thread instead of necroposting the old one?

Because it's more convenient to have just a few long threads of screencaps, rather than lots of short ones?

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:15 pm

Phade wrote:Hey x_rex30,

The threads will still there to view and read whenever you like. The threads aren't being deleted at all. The thing is if nobody cares about the thread within 3 months, why would they suddenly care to post after that? If they do care, why not create a new thread instead of necroposting the old one?

Phade.

Heh, yeah that's very reasonable. Sorry for the trouble.

I was afraid of something like Anime Art Thread(a classic), or anime trivia(another classic) getting locked since there's been times when no one posted on them for a month. Can some threads get marked for non deletion? Just a suggestion. Either way, no biggie.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 4:44 pm

x_rex30 wrote:Heh, yeah that's very reasonable. Sorry for the trouble. I was afraid of something like Anime Art Thread(a classic), or anime trivia(another classic) getting locked since there's been times when no one posted on them for a month. Can some threads get marked for non deletion? Just a suggestion. Either way, no biggie.

Nothing is getting deleted, only locked.

DeinReich · Post by **DeinReich** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:09 pm

Goodie goodie. Seriously.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 6:38 pm

Good work.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 9:16 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
x_rex30 wrote:Heh, yeah that's very reasonable. Sorry for the trouble. I was afraid of something like Anime Art Thread(a classic), or anime trivia(another classic) getting locked since there's been times when no one posted on them for a month. Can some threads get marked for not getting locked? Just a suggestion. Either way, no biggie.
Nothing is getting deleted, only locked.

HAPPY!? :\ I meant to say locked right there, I did say I wouldn't like certain threads getting locked twice before then, then I said deleted once. I thought some people would get the picture since this thread is about thread lockage. : [

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:17 am

I like this in theory, but not in practice, especially in the AMV Announcement section. Videos that are listed on the first page - without any responses - shouldn't be locked. As long as they're on the first page there's still a chance someone will get the video and respond. I'd say raise the time limit for that section, or apply the locks according to the page the thread is on, rather than the date it was created.

If you want to keep it as it is, at least put a mods note in each of the 'locked without a response' threads on the first page, so the new members know they didn't break any rules by announcing their videos.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 6:11 am

Arigatomina wrote:I like this in theory, but not in practice, especially in the AMV Announcement section. Videos that are listed on the first page - without any responses - shouldn't be locked. As long as they're on the first page there's still a chance someone will get the video and respond. I'd say raise the time limit for that section, or apply the locks according to the page the thread is on, rather than the date it was created.

If you want to keep it as it is, at least put a mods note in each of the 'locked without a response' threads on the first page, so the new members know they didn't break any rules by announcing their videos.

it's 3 months after the last reply or 3 months after the creation of the thread? if it's 3 months after the last reply, then i don't think any video in the announcement forum will be on the front page for 3 months without another video bumping it down...

anyway, nice job, i was wondering when something like this was gona be implemented

Pwolf

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:56 am

It is 14 days in that section to prevent bumping of old threads. There are so many threads in there that we try to give each its own fair ammount of attention. Videos listed beyond the first page tend not to receive replies beyond bumps.

Arigatomina wrote:I like this in theory, but not in practice, especially in the AMV Announcement section. Videos that are listed on the first page - without any responses - shouldn't be locked.

Looking in that forum the auto-locking doesn't begin till page five.

Org Profile · Post by **Phade** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:55 am

Hey,

It's 90 days since the last reply. Some topic may stay active for a long time, which is fine. It's just the old dead topics that nobody has bothered to reply to get locked to prevent necroposting. Most forums take several pages before auto-locks show up (with exceptions like Site Announcements, mainly because there is little activity here).

I hope this helps.

Phade.