About "bumping" threads.

[Newendigo]

I've received 2 mesages from someone who say that i should not bump inactives threads of a month ago without a legitimate argument. So i have some questions.

1) Why threads from a month ago if there are threads form a year and i believe that there are even others much olders that are still bumping?

2)Why someone need a legitimate argument?

 

[VenomElite]

1. They shouldn't be. Inactive threads from a year ago should be closed (if you find any still being bumped, let me know). They are outdated and perhaps forgotten about anyway.

2. Because we are all already working our hardest as it is with current topics, some of which might be the same as those old threads that are still being bumped despite being months old. Our focus and priority is for current threads. Especially content revisions above all else.

In the advent of wanting to revive an old thread, just remake the thread (like an updated version) if it's a General Discussion.

 

[Newendigo]

Thanks for the answers. But just to know, someone can only make a remake of a older thread for just once?, And then that topic will never going to be disscused again?

 

[VenomElite]

Depends on the thread. If it's a question that was ever properly answered, then I don't see why you would need to remake the thread more than once unless it just isn't answered properly at all.

For content revisions. If a content revision went too long without being concluded, it's our fault as discussion moderators for not handling that in my honest opinion. That's why we are there to highlight threads for input if needed or close the thread if it's inconclusive as it can always be opened later.

All other threads are different. Management threads like Calculation Requests and Rule Violation Reports get new threads created once they've gotten too full (300+ comments). Maybe an admin could give a better answer, but from my experience, that's usually how it goes.

 

[Sera_EX]

There are 15,080 threads in this forum. 550 are open. We cannot be running around answering threads from a two-three months ago or even worse a year ago when there's new threads being made by the hour and we have to moderate and check on them. Our discussion mods primarily are keeping an eye out for content revisions for example. On top of having 10,937 pages which our administrators and content moderators have to check on by the hour for suspicious edits.

We just can't go back the really old threads. It's best to just make another thread like Ven said and link the old thread in the new one clarifying that it was previously discussed but inconclusive.

Ven is actually going back and closing threads from a year or even two years ago that are still open, whether they have been concluded or not.

 

[Newendigo]

So finally all of that old threads would be closed?

Well i have enough answers to my knowledge, feel free to close this because i'm done.

Thanks for the information guys.

 

[VenomElite]

No problem.