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2009/11/09 15:48:44
Subject: automatic thread necromancy handling
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[ARTICLE MOD]
Fixture of Dakka
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If thread necromancy is really the taboo that it seems to be treated as, why not automatically lock threads after periods of inactivity.
You could do this when someone clicks 'reply', rather than polling the database to see what is old. If someone attempts to reply to a message that has had no posts in over a month, have a message pop up that informs them that the thread is too old to add new replies to.
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2009/11/09 15:56:51
Subject: automatic thread necromancy handling
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Junior Officer with Laspistol
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A long period between replies is alright so long as the replies contribute to the thread - modelling blogs for example. It's only when the reply is something along the lines of "yeah that's cool" on a two-year old thread that there's a problem.
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2009/11/09 18:12:02
Subject: automatic thread necromancy handling
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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The Dreadnote wrote:A long period between replies is alright so long as the replies contribute to the thread - modelling blogs for example. It's only when the reply is something along the lines of "yeah that's cool" on a two-year old thread that there's a problem.
Absolutely correct.
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2009/11/09 20:18:50
Subject: automatic thread necromancy handling
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Hanging Out with Russ until Wolftime
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Yup, it actually doesn't change anything for the better. I am guessing the mod workload for Necros is very light apart from the occasional newbie who drags up 7 threads with his first 6 posts 
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2009/11/09 22:27:20
Subject: automatic thread necromancy handling
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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We have exactly that popup for messages in many of our forums for threads that have gone 30 days with no reply. Implementing that functionality drastically reduced necromancy to a point where it takes very little mod time to deal with it now.
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