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RE: Post Etiquette/Grave Digging - Rou - 02-11-2016

I think that as long as something useful is contributed, grade digging (or "necroing" as I'm used to calling it) is fine. What's annoying is when someone replies to a 5 months old thread with "thanks", "link broken" or some other useless reply.

Edit:
I should also mention that the level of "usefulness" should be in correlation to the age of the thread. The older the thread, the better your contribution should be. Asking for support is never a contribution.
And when the OP has been banned, there's pretty much never a reason to necro it.

RE: Post Etiquette/Grave Digging - Skullmeat - 02-11-2016

My mistake, the timelimit was 3 months. Ive edited the post.

RE: Post Etiquette/Grave Digging - ImmNinjaxD - 02-11-2016

(02-11-2016, 02:29 PM)Yung Lean Wrote: As "The Real Slim Shady" said why not just lock them. Best solution for this. 1 Month might be short period of time and thread can still become active let's say 2-3 months threads gets locked automatically.

If this becomes a thing, there should be a "request unlock" button as well that auto PM's a forum mod (whichever has jurisdiction over said category) why you want to unlock it. If you auto-lock threads, that removes the ability of people who want to post for an actual reason to correct any mistakes that could have been made, or make any other post that is justifiable.

RE: Post Etiquette/Grave Digging - Oni - 02-11-2016

(02-11-2016, 05:22 PM)Skullmeat Wrote: My mistake, the timelimit was 3 months. Ive edited the post.

Staff can still delete posts older than a month, if they aren't worth reading.

RE: Post Etiquette/Grave Digging - Yung Lean - 02-11-2016

(02-11-2016, 08:41 PM)ImmNinjaxD Wrote: If this becomes a thing, there should be a "request unlock" button as well that auto PM's a forum mod (whichever has jurisdiction over said category) why you want to unlock it. If you auto-lock threads, that removes the ability of people who want to post for an actual reason to correct any mistakes that could have been made, or make any other post that is justifiable.

Actually had similar thing in mind that people might ask for request to unlock thread if it is really worth posting something. But people should give serious reason why it should be unlocked OR instead of just unlocking the thread the person that tries to post something it auto PMs the creator of the thread optional thing if threads creator would have option himself to unlock the thread he has created ages ago for someone to post if the person who PM'ed him gave serious reason. So that wouldn't overload Mods work to unlock threads requested by people.

RE: Post Etiquette/Grave Digging - ImmNinjaxD - 02-11-2016

(02-11-2016, 09:37 PM)Yung Lean Wrote: But people should give serious reason why it should be unlocked

Yeah, that's what I meant, just like if you report a post/thread where you need to specify a reason.

(02-11-2016, 09:37 PM)Yung Lean Wrote: OR instead of just unlocking the thread the person that tries to post something it auto PMs the creator of the thread optional thing if threads creator would have option himself to unlock the thread he has created ages ago for someone to post if the person who PM'ed him gave serious reason. So that wouldn't overload Mods work to unlock threads requested by people.

This would be fine, but if the "request unlock" plugin/whatever remains where threads are locked by staff purposefully, it could potentially be exploited to have a user unlock a thread they owned that staff determined over. It would probably just be safer to leave it to the mods, but it all depends on if and how this happens.

RE: Post Etiquette/Grave Digging - Yung Lean - 02-12-2016

(02-11-2016, 09:47 PM)ImmNinjaxD Wrote: Yeah, that's what I meant, just like if you report a post/thread where you need to specify a reason.


This would be fine, but if the "request unlock" plugin/whatever remains where threads are locked by staff purposefully, it could potentially be exploited to have a user unlock a thread they owned that staff determined over. It would probably just be safer to leave it to the mods, but it all depends on if and how this happens.
Makes sense. Hopefully Oni will think of how to resolve this from all these ideas [emoji2]

RE: Post Etiquette/Grave Digging - mothered - 02-12-2016

(02-11-2016, 05:22 PM)Skullmeat Wrote: My mistake, the timelimit was 3 months. Ive edited the post.

The question remains, can a time-frame be defined In the rules?

As It stands (In the rules), there's nothing definitive as to what Is/Is not classed as grave digging. A member (for example) can receive a warning for grave digging, whereby at the "member's" discretion, It wasn't the case but at the "staff's" discretion It was.

Grave digging needs clarification, and once that's been documented and clearly stated, there'll be no excuse for non-compliance.

RE: Post Etiquette/Grave Digging - ImmNinjaxD - 02-12-2016

(02-12-2016, 04:35 AM)Yoko Wrote: I don't think there is a definite solutions that will please everyone.

I think the only real problem is that newer members probably don't read the rules and end up grave digging when they're trying to contribute. The solution could be as simple as this:

[Image: 996ef1c8da569e0776373b4d9fd6b5fb.png]

Just trying to throw ideas your way @Oni .

RE: Post Etiquette/Grave Digging - Yung Lean - 02-12-2016

(02-12-2016, 09:18 PM)ImmNinjaxD Wrote: I think the only real problem is that newer members probably don't read the rules and end up grave digging when they're trying to contribute. The solution could be as simple as this:

[Image: 996ef1c8da569e0776373b4d9fd6b5fb.png]

Just trying to throw ideas your way @Oni .
People dont really pay attention to text warnings unless they are actually forced to see information.
My other idea is lets say member writes a text that wants to post then presses "Post Reply" then majestic pop up appears saying "This thread is older than 3 months before posting you must : (bullet points)
• Your post must be reasonable
• etc
• etc