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07-20-2007, 01:51 AM
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| SFM Oracle  Realname: Kyle Join Date: May 2006 Location: US Age: 17
Posts: 3,500
Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0  | Thread revival suggestion I've noticed a lot of people revive dead threads. Would it be possible to lock the thread at the creators permission or after a month or 2 and then if/when they want it reopened they can contact an admin or even have a password for it? |
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07-20-2007, 05:29 AM
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| SFM Obsessed  Realname: Matt Join Date: May 2006 Location: Australia Age: 23
Posts: 1,088
Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0 | Some threads are legitimately revived, such as interest in a half finished project or people's whereabouts. But more general, "garbage" threads like "who's your favourite star wars character" or stuff like that can stay dead. |
| Current WIPS: None 'cause I'm a lazy bastard. "With 5,000,000 models being destroyed a week, who's going to miss another one?" | |
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07-20-2007, 12:06 PM
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| SFM Guru  Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 534
Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0 | Personally, I don't have any problems when people resurrect threads. Someone using the search function, seeing a thread of a WIP he's interested in, and then he makes a comment on it. So what? There should be no problem with that, IMHO. |
| Born to be Wilde. And to be the slowest modeller in this galaxy. | |
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07-20-2007, 12:32 PM
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| Still Alive   Realname: Andy Join Date: May 2006 Location: Syracuse NY USA Age: 24
Posts: 3,547
Downloads: 3 Uploads: 4    | when it's just "UPDATE PLZ!!!??" after a couple months then that's just moronic. we used to have a warning attached to the quick reply box for old threads, so people wouldn't have an excuse for necroposting and screaming for updates maybe it also said something like 'PM the author instead' |
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07-21-2007, 03:02 AM
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| Deep Space Researcher Realname: Daniel Clayton Graves Join Date: May 2006 Location: Maysville / Morehead, KY, US Age: 19
Posts: 1,393
Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0 | Quote:
Locking and later unlocking a thread is indeed easier then going through and deleting necroposts, and alerting the posters. | |
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07-21-2007, 10:09 AM
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| GRRRRR!!!!   Join Date: May 2006 Location: London
Posts: 2,465
Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0 | Quote:
if it's something genuinely useful then sure it's ok, but most of the time it's not, a PM to the author would do much better | |
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07-21-2007, 10:31 AM
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| SFM Guru Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 534
Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0 | Haven't thought about that. But at the end, I did mean of course useful replies to a thread. "UPDATES PLZ!!!?" is annoying as hell, but if it's together with new reference images, for example, it's a good thing.  |
| Born to be Wilde. And to be the slowest modeller in this galaxy. | |
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08-27-2007, 10:04 AM
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| Administrator   Realname: Tim Join Date: May 2006 Location: ACT, Australia
Posts: 2,696
Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0 | I'm not for the idea of auto-locking threads. I've been to some sites that do it and it doesn't make the place feel like an open and friendly enviroment, yaknow? It feels as though someone is saying "This topic has been discussed as far as it can be and no one could possibly have anything more informative/interesting/useful to say on it". As for requesting that your own thread be locked? By all means. If you are one of those who hate necro-posters then I highly recommend you approach one of the staff and get them to do it for you. It takes two seconds for one of us to do... |
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