Archive or Remove old topics
 

To be honest I thought this system was already in place.
Topics more than a year old should be automatically locked forever.

This would solve the "posting on old threads" problem, right?

Topics more than six years old ARE locked in place, try to post in them or quote from them and you'll get a message telling you to contact an admin.

It's not much of a problem. It happens rarely, affects very little, and is easy to fix. And since I can't find an option for it, it most probably would require a hack that'll make updating vBulletin an even bigger pain in the arse.

I think topics over a week old should be deleted.

I think members over a week old should be deleted.

i think members over a week old should take a regular Common Sense test.

I am in favor of this.

I was under the impression that any topic that hasn't been posted in for 3 months is automatically locked down?

I MEANT MONTHS DAMNIT

Clearly that doesn't prevent people from posting in them.

I don't recall a topic of late that was revived after six months.

there's been a few in FC. only ones i've noticed, and it always seems to be some hapless newbie going "OMG this is great! hope to see more! ;)". i can't stand the niceness. IT WAS OVER 3 YEARS OLD FUCK

Yeah, they get locked. I had to ask Nate reopen one for me a while ago.

considering this topic was made by AlexFili, who frequents FC, i would say the threads being revived there are what sparked this thread. but i think a lock on any thread in FC would be quite silly. people just need to learn how to use that thing they were born with, along with their eyes.

The one I know of is this thread about making a level editor, which obviously is a bit relevent since it's only now that folks are starting to work out how that might even be done.

I don't understand. That thread isn't more than six months old, there is no message advising users not to post in it, and I can't see that this subject comes up in it.

Firstly I was wrong and it was three, secondly you're an admin so you can't see the message you doodoo head.

You don't see it because you're a mod. The message states this: You are not permitted to reply to threads older than three months. If you feel your reply is important to the thread, please contact a Moderator for guidance.

For the record, I didn't expect to see a message for that exact reason.

EDIT: Also, NFI what kind of guidance I could give on the matter other than "tough titties".

Yes. FC has different rules to the rest of OWF, on explicit request from Splat.

Strange. I used to see a warning message even if it didn't actually stop me from posting.

As for what guidance you could give; if someone sends you a PM, you can either post in the thread to revive it, or you can tell them to create a new thread. Is that not guidance enough for you?

The former seems stupid, but I've done it before, then deleted my post. What a rendundant amount of effort.

I also remember seeing the message, but I can't remember if that was before I became an admin.

So you would prefer to have people create new threads rather than extend an existing one that is perfectly relevant but would take 30 seconds of your time?

I didn't say that in the slightest.

I know what you said. I was pointing out the contradiction therein.

So "Hang on, I'll just waltz over there, post something meaningless, then you can post and I'll delete my post" constitutes advice?

Well, the PM reply of "Okay, I'll fix that for you" constitutes advice.

Thanks for the advice.