Spanish GM sems prettys erious on the matter, pretty much locking them on sight evenif it's just a few months old
http://forums.spiralknights.com/es/forum/36
Yet here, where you would expect even more GM activity, since all of them speak English, re-reviving 2010-2011 threads is common place.
So... is Clotho an evil dictator impossing her own rules or is the rest of the team too lazy to control the wild english forums?
The English forums seem to be the most active compared to (Spanish, French, and German Forums), the threads that do get Necro are usually on page 3 by the end of the day due to all the new topics posted and the on-going posts on other topics. Necroing a thread is not against the rules unless it is an obvious bump.
I don't see why necroing is a problem. Just because a discussion has become stale for a period means that the discussion is off-limits? As soon as someone makes a new thread to add something to said discussion they get hammered with "omg use search noob". Forumers should be free to necro old topics, so long as they have something new to add or even ask about the thread. One of my threads in the Arsenal right now got a few bumps with new questions/comments and I made it over a year ago. What benefit would there be to just locking it after a week of inactivity, shy of preventing random, rare and pointless bumps?
Necroing becomes a problem when the thread takes up space that would otherwise be used by more pertenint threads. This is especially the case when the necro-post is nothing more than a +1 or some other mundane topic that was already posted and reposted before it.
Creating a new topic is also bad when there was already a topic created with the same content, and the new topic doesn't add anything new. This also takes up space on the first pages, that could be used by other, better, threads.
In my opinion, necroing is better than creating a new topic, assuming you have new, relevant, and detailed information to add. That way, opinions that were already posted don't need to be reposted.
Edit: After a quick google translate on the posts of the old threads, it seems like most of the necros are pretty pointless. By the looks of it, one of them was a "I know who you are" on a quitting thread, and another was a meme.
If that's what was really posted, I think Clotho was right to lock those threads.
Another situation in which necro-bumping is unacceptable is when someone is answering a question asked by the OP. Other than that, I agree completely with Oatmonster
Much of the time, necroing is a good thing. Many threads are like "post your favorite flavor of jello" or "you know you've been playing this game too long when..." type of things that are still relevant. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. What isn't so nice is when people necro threads that have outdated information- like "Why don't people use Sentenza? Isn't piercing+shadow a good combination?" or when people necro threads for no reason other than to make us all angry, for instance posts that say things like "LMAO IMA NECRO FOR GIGGLES". This is a fault.
I really do wish that Eurydice would step it up a bit though, and actually like... do more than just move threads. Right now, I don't go to gremlin chatter because of the large number of "FORUM GAME" type threads, I don't go to treasure vault because of all of the "Fan-fiction of Magnus and Chris" type threads... and then there are the players that contribute very little to conversations, and just kind of attempt to seduce or otherwise troll <69 for no real reason. Why are these people still here? There is no reason for us to avoid disciplining the ones that break the more obvious rules repeatedly. And then people like Pawn get banned from the forums... I honestly feel that the rules are only applied to some of us, and that others are exempt... but then, we did all click a box saying "I hereby forfeit my soul to OOO." And if the devil is the only one whom appreciates my soul He might as well take it.
It's even possible to necro your own thread. It's insane.
@Omnizoa I was just thinking the same thing
It's even possible to necro your own thread. It's insane.
The jesus-bump; self-necro'dl!
One day, this thread will become old and no one will post here anymore. I'll wait a month, tracking its whereabouts, following it closely. Then I'm going to necro it. It shall be beautiful.
Because of this title, I'll meet you all back here in about 4 months
Congratulations, you just posted what three of the four people ahead of you posted.
In 4 months the world will be blown up, so we need to necro it pre-New Years.
Oatmonster wrote"In my opinion, necroing is better than creating a new topic, assuming you have new, relevant, and detailed information to add. That way, opinions that were already posted don't need to be reposted"
Take for example the posts above me. they are not on topic at all. I was curious about necro topics too but all I got was "bump" posts.
I believe posting a couple weeks after the thread was created is ok as long as the poster is on topic. So what if the thread is locked. At least you typed an informative statement right?
Honestly, I don't think GM's really have control/want to do anything to posts in the english forums now.
Things you can do if you forgot a topic:
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What is the problem with replying to old threads? If you reply to an old thread, you are necroing. If you create a new thread about the issue you are replying to, you are duplicating threads. There's just no way to win!
Just because you've had your say, doesn't mean somebody else hasn't. Although some threads do deserve to be locked (specially if they've derailed somewhat).
Prolly Clotho is doing her Job as GM and not an evil dictador :P, i find really reasonable that a necroed thread should be locksed and not leave it open in order to get more and more necroing.
maybe when someone necro a thread here it just leave it alone to be rotten at the bottom of many threads that users make here per day. if you noticed here have more activity than the spanish forum so the necroed thread usually get buried by those new threads while in the spanish forum Clotho need to lock it due the lack of activity there.
But who knows :P maybe if Eury answers to this thread..