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Lucario621 · 2010-02-22 17:21:52

Lately, I've seen an increase in the amount of old threads that are being bumped up. I find it annoying, because I have to post and tell them not to bump of old topics, and mods have to use their time to remove the simplist things, when they could be elaborating on suggestions like this one tongue

My suggestion, is that once a topic gets a certain amount of time old, or basically it hasn't been posted in for a long time (say, a couple of weeks, or a month, a mod could decide), a message would be added to the top of the thread, saying this:

Note: This topic has been unedited for (# of days) days. It is considered archived - the discussion is over. Do not add to unless it really needs a response.

I think this would help a lot, so people don't bump up old topics as much.

Although I'm wondering if this is possible. If it makes it easier, it could just not mention the amount of days, and say "This topic has been unedited for over a month", but still this might be difficult to implement. Because I don't think mods should have to do this manually XD

Ace-of-Spades · 2010-02-22 18:30:07

1 month is too short. Plus it's mainly just 2 users doing it, so if we could get them to stop, about 124% of the necroposting rates would go down.

Lucario621 · 2010-02-22 18:51:41

Ace-of-Spades wrote:
1 month is too short. Plus it's mainly just 2 users doing it, so if we could get them to stop, about 124% of the necroposting rates would go down.

More like 3756547% tongue

Ace-of-Spades · 2010-02-22 19:01:09

To [removed] and- I mean the two users responsible, you know who you are.

Last edited by Paddle2See (2010-02-23 05:22:53)

greenflash · 2010-02-22 20:03:41

Lucario621 wrote:
Ace-of-Spades wrote:
1 month is too short. Plus it's mainly just 2 users doing it, so if we could get them to stop, about 124% of the necroposting rates would go down.
More like 3756547%

I have seen those numbers somewhere...

The forum uses PunBB doesn't it? I'm not sure if it's possible. Maybe if you make the date posted bigger, it would stop it. But that might not be possible either.

adriangl · 2010-02-22 20:22:42

greenflash wrote:
Lucario621 wrote:
Ace-of-Spades wrote:
1 month is too short. Plus it's mainly just 2 users doing it, so if we could get them to stop, about 124% of the necroposting rates would go down.
More like 3756547%
I have seen those numbers somewhere...

The forum uses PunBB doesn't it? I'm not sure if it's possible. Maybe if you make the date posted bigger, it would stop it. But that might not be possible either.

There is something called "prune". It is possible to do this end topic thing after a month, but I would say 6 weeks, a little more time.

Ace-of-Spades · 2010-02-22 20:35:11

That deletes all old topics, so I doubt it would be used.

scmb1 · 2010-02-22 21:03:55

That might be a good solution. I really don't like it when users bump year-old topics, but I can see how they might do it accidentally. They could find the topic via the search engine, and forget to look at the date before posting. I don't doubt that I've done that before. That would be a good way to prevent accidental bumps, and maybe discourage purposeful bumpers as well.

Jonathanpb · 2010-02-22 22:48:42

Ace-of-Spades wrote:
To [removed] and- I mean the two users responsible, you know who you are.

Hey, the moderators don't like it when you talk about someone in a bad way, and give the username. Just letting you know. smile

Jonathanpb · 2010-02-22 23:05:40

Lucario, I love your idea! But I think the message should be where the post area is. It won't let you post unless you agree to the message and click OK. Sort of like this:

What do you think? smile

Last edited by Jonathanpb (2010-02-22 23:06:01)

hmnwilson · 2010-02-22 23:28:15

Jonathanpb wrote:
Lucario, I love your idea! But I think the message should be where the post area is. It won't let you post unless you agree to the message and click OK. Sort of like this:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6861 … gupold.png

What do you think?

Not a bad idea.

It's annoying when people bump topics that haven't been posted in for years, especially when they post something like:

<when green flag clicked><forever><play sound[ [/blocks]

People do that all the time, but when they do, they usually bump an old topic to post it in. So this idea might discourage necroposting while also stopping this "block spam".

iamback · 2010-02-23 03:23:32

Why doesn't Scratch use phpBB? It's the only one I've heard of.

iamback · 2010-02-23 03:24:43

Jonathanpb wrote:
Lucario, I love your idea! But I think the message should be where the post area is. It won't let you post unless you agree to the message and click OK. Sort of like this:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6861 … gupold.png

What do you think?

Pretty good. yikes I haven't seen a post from you in ages. Remember nobugs? That's me.

Jonathanpb · 2010-02-23 04:39:40

iamback wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
Lucario, I love your idea! But I think the message should be where the post area is. It won't let you post unless you agree to the message and click OK. Sort of like this:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6861 … gupold.png

What do you think?
Pretty good. I haven't seen a post from you in ages. Remember nobugs? That's me.

Hi! Actually, I go on the website and forums every day, and post some each visit. tongue

Haven't seen you in a while, though... smile

Paddle2See · 2010-02-23 05:28:05

Jonathanpb wrote:
Lucario, I love your idea! But I think the message should be where the post area is. It won't let you post unless you agree to the message and click OK. Sort of like this:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6861 … gupold.png

What do you think?

I like this proposal! It would mean less work for the mods and less noise on the forum. I kind of like 2 months for the time limit but I can see it being something less or more by maybe a couple of weeks. I will put in a change request - even if it doesn't get done on this forum, maybe it can be incorporated into whatever forum supports Scratch 2.0.

Jonathanpb · 2010-02-23 05:56:25

Paddle2See wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
Lucario, I love your idea! But I think the message should be where the post area is. It won't let you post unless you agree to the message and click OK. Sort of like this:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6861 … gupold.png

What do you think?
I like this proposal! It would mean less work for the mods and less noise on the forum. I kind of like 2 months for the time limit but I can see it being something less or more by maybe a couple of weeks. I will put in a change request - even if it doesn't get done on this forum, maybe it can be incorporated into whatever forum supports Scratch 2.0.

Thanks! big_smile

It was mainly Lucario's idea though... wink

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Chrischb · 2010-02-23 06:40:57

Jonathanpb wrote:

You and your forum edits... tongue

You're good at those.

Paradox · 2010-02-23 06:59:12

Jonathanpb wrote:
Ace-of-Spades wrote:
To [removed] and- I mean the two users responsible, you know who you are.
Hey, the moderators don't like it when you talk about someone in a bad way, and give the username. Just letting you know.

Thanks for stating the obvious
I see theres no last edited by Paddle2see thing under your post so you told him that after it was already edited

Jonathanpb · 2010-02-23 06:59:26

Chrischb wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
You and your forum edits...

You're good at those.

Thanks! smile

Jonathanpb · 2010-02-23 07:01:04

Paradox wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
Ace-of-Spades wrote:
To [removed] and- I mean the two users responsible, you know who you are.
Hey, the moderators don't like it when you talk about someone in a bad way, and give the username. Just letting you know.
Thanks for stating the obvious
I see theres no last edited by Paddle2see thing under your post so you told him that after it was already edited

I said that before Paddle came along and edited it... in the quote, I removed it myself. wink

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Paradox · 2010-02-23 07:04:57

hmnwilson wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
Lucario, I love your idea! But I think the message should be where the post area is. It won't let you post unless you agree to the message and click OK. Sort of like this:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6861 … gupold.png

What do you think?
Not a bad idea.

It's annoying when people bump topics that haven't been posted in for years, especially when they post something like:

<when green flag clicked><forever><play sound[ [/blocks]
People do that all the time, but when they do, they usually bump an old topic to post it in. So this idea might discourage necroposting while also stopping this "block spam".

What about that guy who just posts on every old topics with some kind of badly written gist of what's going on then says OT: something?

Jonathanpb · 2010-02-23 07:18:33

Paradox wrote:
hmnwilson wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
Lucario, I love your idea! But I think the message should be where the post area is. It won't let you post unless you agree to the message and click OK. Sort of like this:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6861 … gupold.png

What do you think?
Not a bad idea.

It's annoying when people bump topics that haven't been posted in for years, especially when they post something like:

<when green flag clicked><forever><play sound[ [/blocks]
People do that all the time, but when they do, they usually bump an old topic to post it in. So this idea might discourage necroposting while also stopping this "block spam".
What about that guy who just posts on every old topics with some kind of badly written gist of what's going on then says OT: something?

Why did you have to mention that? That's a sort of insult to the person (although weakened). hmm

Ace-of-Spades · 2010-02-23 07:59:50

Jonathanpb wrote:
Ace-of-Spades wrote:
To [removed] and- I mean the two users responsible, you know who you are.
Hey, the moderators don't like it when you talk about someone in a bad way, and give the username. Just letting you know.

Yeah and now watch this: In the future, that user will repeat the process because he doesn't know what he's doing. It's not a matter of good and bad, but a matter of understanding. He doesn't understand he's necroposting.

BWOG · 2010-02-23 09:26:18

Paddle2See wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
Lucario, I love your idea! But I think the message should be where the post area is. It won't let you post unless you agree to the message and click OK. Sort of like this:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6861 … gupold.png

What do you think?
I like this proposal! It would mean less work for the mods and less noise on the forum. I kind of like 2 months for the time limit but I can see it being something less or more by maybe a couple of weeks. I will put in a change request - even if it doesn't get done on this forum, maybe it can be incorporated into whatever forum supports Scratch 2.0.

Does that mean... we're changing forums??? yikes

Greatdane · 2010-02-23 09:51:45

Paddle2See wrote:
Jonathanpb wrote:
Lucario, I love your idea! But I think the message should be where the post area is. It won't let you post unless you agree to the message and click OK. Sort of like this:

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6861 … gupold.png

What do you think?
I like this proposal! It would mean less work for the mods and less noise on the forum. I kind of like 2 months for the time limit but I can see it being something less or more by maybe a couple of weeks. I will put in a change request - even if it doesn't get done on this forum, maybe it can be incorporated into whatever forum supports Scratch 2.0.

Forum? Scratch 2.0?

I'm adding this to my Scratch 2.0 Scrapbook.

Gathering information.

Congrats on the submission, Lucario621! smile

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