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- I wasn't sure how to answer this, because I've never been the one that started it.
Like a lot of others, I've commented on threads when someone else already did it and it popped up in current discussions. I just browse through discussions and comment on the ones that look interesting, I don't generally look through the dates. Just this past week I had commented on a thread and the next post was a mod commenting that it was necroposted and closing it. I've often wondered why they don't just automatically close threads that are past a certain age, then necroposting couldn't happen. - I do what I want. o:)
"lisamwitt;c-17177282" wrote:
I wasn't sure how to answer this, because I've never been the one that started it.
Like a lot of others, I've commented on threads when someone else already did it and it popped up in current discussions. I've done that probably a handful of times, because I just browse through discussions and comment on the ones that look interesting. I don't generally look through the dates. Just this past week I had commented on a thread and the next post was a mod commenting that it was necroposted and closing it. I've often wondered why they don't just automatically close threads that are past a certain age, then necroposting couldn't happen.
They did that and then people in the building/creative forums got upset when they came back to post a new creation in their showcase thread only to find that it had been locked. So they undid the batch locking they had done. And now close threads as they get necro'd. It does not appear that they can have different rules for different sections.
I wonder if they could do something like what MTS does and put a "this thread hasn't had a reply in X months" to help prevent necro'ing there."Seera1024;c-17177296" wrote:
I wonder if they could do something like what MTS does and put a "this thread hasn't had a reply in X months" to help prevent necro'ing there.
You'd think. It works pretty well on that site.- On the rare occasion but as @Sharonia said when someone else ressurected a thread and I haven't realised it was a necropost.
- As everyone here has said, only after someone else has necro'd (usually a newer member) without me realizing it. I tend to check dates more often nowadays. I've been seeing a lot more necro'd posts lately with the influx of new players from when the game was free for awhile.
- Pretty sure I must have at some point or another, often from search. So guilty of being a tag-a-long though on already necro'd posts! I'm another one that lives on the Recent Discussions page, and I hardly ever check dates.
- I used to all the time when I started out. I didn’t read the rules properly back then..
"SimAlexandria;c-17177244" wrote:
Yes but only after someone else did, as I read this forum by "recent discussions".
Same.- One of the first things i do is check the OP date and keep looking until i see that break point of inactivity between replies, after that it is a simple matter of posting or not, either way it is reported on before hand.
