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Old 10-27-2011, 07:23 PM
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"You are posting in an inactive thread"

It's fairly annoying (to me, at least) when someone—usually a new person—posts in a old thread, because the thread is likely to soon be locked and people make silly comments about necromancy and the whole thing is pointless. So, if someone tries to post in an old thread (beyond whatever limit we use), a message could come up saying something along the lines of "You are attempting to post in an inactive thread. Posting in threads which have not had a response for more than three months is discouraged, and the thread is likely to be locked if you do so. Would you like to proceed anyway?"

Hopefully it would stop people from posting in old threads with short, non-contributing responses. And that would reduce moderator workload, so they can get back to doing whatever the hell it is they do.
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Old 10-27-2011, 07:27 PM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

Yeah, I did think about making a thread once having Zelda Universe get an autolock after a certain period of time, but later thought, if they put enough effort into reviving the thread, I'd prefer if they'd revive it rather than just making a new one. Even with something, like, for example, in General Gaming. I recently resurrected the Goldeneye thread, because I wanted to be able to play multiplayer with Zelda Universe and I did not own the game in January. So, I revived the thread in an effort to bring back ZU's Goldeneye Community. That's one of the reasons I think Auto-Locks wouldn't work. Especially if it is a thread where there's an official one.
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Old 10-27-2011, 07:28 PM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

It wouldn't be auto-locked. The message would just tell them about the policy and then let them post anyway if they so choose.
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Old 10-27-2011, 07:31 PM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

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It wouldn't be auto-locked. The message would just tell them about the policy and then let them post anyway if they so choose.
Oh, that I'd be perfectly fine with.
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Old 10-27-2011, 08:21 PM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

as far as I know it's actually encouraged to necro a thread in GG or Entertainment instead of making a new one. There's no real reason not to when each thread has a subject regarding an item or something more... substantial than what you would get in GCC.
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Old 10-27-2011, 08:46 PM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

I can't see it being that much more work for mods to just close the thread and say "Don't post in necro threads, fools."

But, by all means, if something like this can be implemented, might as well giver er' a test drive.
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Old 10-28-2011, 06:28 AM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"



Couldn't help it.
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Old 10-28-2011, 06:52 AM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

Perhaps it could be implemented only in certain sections?
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Old 10-28-2011, 09:21 AM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

I go on another forum where they have a plugin for this. When you post in an older thread, a warning pops up and tells you that it's been over 14 days since the last post and, depending on the particular forum's rules, you maybe warned or infracted for making said post.

It's kinda neat.
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Old 10-28-2011, 09:24 AM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

could be unnecessary though, in some cases the thread might be a community event, it's just that there's been no news on the subject for a while, but eventually there will be because the event is going to happen. It'd just give the mods more work to do(un-infracting/warning people)

First example that came to mind
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Old 10-28-2011, 09:31 AM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

Well, it wouldn't automatically infract people. There's no need for that. It would just tell them about the policy.
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Old 10-28-2011, 02:51 PM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

And then if they still want to post, they can do so.

That said, I think this is a pretty neat idea. Would love to know if there's any kind of plug-in out there for this.
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Old 10-29-2011, 08:50 AM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

Prevent bumping old Threads - vBulletin.org Forum

Supports our current vBulletin version, and there are instructions to have it work on vB4 when we eventually upgrade.
-> http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showp...5&postcount=82
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Old 10-29-2011, 09:24 AM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

Then I see no reason not to implement it.
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Old 10-29-2011, 05:55 PM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

For the record, I've brought this up in staff.
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Old 10-31-2011, 10:09 AM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

Huh. That's cool.

I'll get it added this evening.
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Old 10-31-2011, 10:11 AM
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Old 10-31-2011, 10:14 AM
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Old 10-31-2011, 10:28 AM
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Old 10-31-2011, 10:31 AM
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Re: "You are posting in an inactive thread"

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