Archive: 5 posts

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Over the past few months I've noticed a trend of people reviving old threads. Now I'm not talking about game threads or threads with info that is still useful. I'm talking about threads that the info is way outdated, the original poster has not been active for over a year, or that are revived, imo, for no other purpose but to gain xp or attention. My question to the community is what do you think should happen to old threads? Threads that are outdated or have had no response in 6 months.

2011-12-19 17:10:00 Author: Lady_Luck__777 Posts: 3458

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Personally i think after a certain period they should be locked, good point i have noticed this too, i get to reading new responses and i then look at the topic and i'm like whoa, wait what?? January of 2010?? why are these people even posting here, did they intentionally go super far back in the forum pages to find something they knew enough abut to gain a small amount of XP? makes little sense to me, typically the original poster isn't even active anymore and the thread itself is totally and completely irrelevant... odd.. you make a good point though, you get a smiley and a thumbs up, or maybe a smiley up http://www.lahc.edu/studentservices/aso/thumbs_up_bciy.jpg

2011-12-19 23:15:00 Author: Tyranny68 Posts: 390

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As long as the threads aren't useful, lock em. As a user of these forums however, I am not bothered by them at all.

2011-12-20 07:53:00 Author: midnight_heist Posts: 2513

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I gotta be honest, I just don't see a way of doing this that would work well. Due to the sheer volume of threads posted on LBPC every day, we'd definitely have to automate the process - but if we did so, I see no way of automatically determining if a thread "deserves" to be autolocked with any sort of accuracy. One way around this is including a "do not autolock" checkbox or something of that fashion during the thread creation process, but I don't think that'd do much either. Allowing users to decide for themselves if their thread deserves to be autolocked would probably be about as accurate as trying to automate it. (read: not very) A potential solution to that problem is only allowing site staff (or some other group) to mark a thread as un-autolock-able, but, again, thanks to the volume of threads posted here at LBPC, that's also not really feasible. Out of all the potential solutions I can imagine, the only one I'm comfortable with is changing nothing. In the system's current state, if a thread is bumped inappropriately, it can be reported and/or locked. If it's bumped but deserves to stay open, it'll remain open. Yes, it takes us time to respond, and, no, we can't catch every single one on our own - but I think it's a more accurate and reliable solution than any of the other potential solutions I've entertained. If you've got another option, though, let me know - if there's a way to consistently prevent outdated/irrelevant threads (and only those) from being bumped in the first place, I'd implement it in a heartbeat.

2011-12-20 11:03:00 Author: ConfusedCartman Posts: 3729

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This is kind of a tricky issue, as there's no easy way to make a blanket rule to cover all cases in a sensible way, hence why there's no explicit rules about reviving old threads. So, these are generally dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Most of the time, they're bumped by automated spambots, which isn't always obvious, cos some are quite good at pretending to be human, but those replies are usually deleted quite swiftly. I'm talking about threads that the info is way outdated... Depends on the reply. The only one I can think of that's happened recently is this one (https://lbpcentral.lbp-hub.com/index.php?t=49935-Easier-Way-To-Get-Objects-into-the-Foreground-of-your-level!), which was reasonable. The reply was "does this method of putting objects into the foreground still work?", to which someone else replied "no". I don't see how it would be any different if the poster had instead made a new thread saying "does the method of putting objects into the foreground as described in (link to other thread) still work?". At least this way, all the posts are kept together. ...the original poster has not been active for over a year... Personally, I don't see a problem with, for example, people posting solutions to "Help" threads where the OP is no longer active. There's always a chance that the info might be useful to someone else, which I kinda figured was the point of having a public forum system. ...or that are revived, imo, for no other purpose but to gain xp or attention. This is different, though. If you believe the reply is of no consequence, then it falls into the "spam/off-topic" category, so feel free to report these, and we'll deal with them.

2011-12-20 15:29:00 Author: Aya042 Posts: 2870

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