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#301 2012-08-19 21:21:30
#302 2012-08-19 21:48:06
Re: New Scratchers Necropost Restriction
Wes64 wrote:
wy do you bump this so much... the discussion is dead
Yes, but there are an incredible number of supporters...until the Scratch Team acknowledges the idea and its support, and tells us whether or not they will consider the idea, letting it die would waste that support.
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#303 2012-08-19 23:04:30
Re: New Scratchers Necropost Restriction
Greenatic wrote:
Wes64 wrote:
wy do you bump this so much... the discussion is dead
Yes, but there are an incredible number of supporters...until the Scratch Team acknowledges the idea and its support, and tells us whether or not they will consider the idea, letting it die would waste that support.
why dont you just ask a mod for their opinion
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#304 2012-08-20 12:49:26
- Firedrake969
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Re: New Scratchers Necropost Restriction
We need this. Support. A bunch of New Scratchers have been necroposting......
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#305 2012-08-20 12:53:25
#306 2012-08-20 14:31:54
#307 2012-08-20 14:47:03
Re: New Scratchers Necropost Restriction
I just realized a potential problem with this.
If, for example, a new scratcher posts a topic that is a duplicate of an old one, and gets closed and directed to the new one, they won't be able to post in it unless someone else does first.
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#308 2012-08-20 16:26:16
- CheckItNow12
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Re: New Scratchers Necropost Restriction
Support.
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#309 2012-08-20 17:14:12
Re: New Scratchers Necropost Restriction
nama wrote:
I just realized a potential problem with this.
If, for example, a new scratcher posts a topic that is a duplicate of an old one, and gets closed and directed to the new one, they won't be able to post in it unless someone else does first.
That is a bit of a drawback, but I believe the benefits outweigh it.
Thanks to the new supporters! 
Wes64 wrote:
Greenatic wrote:
Wes64 wrote:
wy do you bump this so much... the discussion is dead
Yes, but there are an incredible number of supporters...until the Scratch Team acknowledges the idea and its support, and tells us whether or not they will consider the idea, letting it die would waste that support.
why dont you just ask a mod for their opinion
Multiple mods have already supported. Check the supporter list.
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#310 2012-08-21 19:08:48
- Paddle2See
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Re: New Scratchers Necropost Restriction
Nice work getting support for this idea! - but I'm sorry to say that I do not agree with it as it is currently written.
First, I don't agree with your definition of a necropost. A post can be very old - yet still relevant. Particularly in the Bugs and Glitches area, where a strange situation may cause an error message that only shows up for a very few users at rare intervals. A post is only a necropost when the topic is no longer relevant - and I'm not sure you can automate when that happens. I don't think we want anybody who is looking for help blocked from posting on the forums - that would be a failure in it's primary function. So if there are going to be restrictions placed on posting, we would probably want to only apply them in certain non-essential forum areas, such as the Things I'm ... sections.
Secondly, there are no current features in the forum software that would let us put your proposal in use. So, they would have to be custom coded. I don't think the problem is bad enough that we want to dedicate resources to it right now - even if we could come to an agreement about how it should be implemented.
I do think that there will come a time, after the transition to Scratch 2.0, when it will make more sense to address this. But it's not terribly high on our priorities at the moment.
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#311 2012-08-22 16:58:55
Re: New Scratchers Necropost Restriction
Paddle2See wrote:
... I don't think we want anybody who is looking for help blocked from posting on the forums ...
This isn't blocking their use of the forums. At worst, this just adds a few new threads--they can still get help, and the forums can still serve their function.
Paddle2See wrote:
Secondly, there are no current features in the forum software that would let us put your proposal in use. So, they would have to be custom coded. I don't think the problem is bad enough that we want to dedicate resources to it right now - even if we could come to an agreement about how it should be implemented.
I do think that there will come a time, after the transition to Scratch 2.0, when it will make more sense to address this. But it's not terribly high on our priorities at the moment.
That's understandable. This isn't an immediate issue--but I do think it is something that ought to be considered in the future.
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