1: Completely disagree. I and many others would be happy if he never show his face in here again.
2: Just use the ignore feature
3: Agreed or have the thread automatically marked as a necro.
1) Allow TheFlyingPig back w/o any strings attached.
Everyone knows this
2) ability to block users from posting in a thread you created.
3) if a thread has no new posts in a year, auto-lock it to prevent necro threads.
1: Completely disagree. I and many others would be happy if he never show his face in here again.
2: Just use the ignore feature
3: Agreed or have the thread automatically marked as a necro.
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3: Agreed or have the thread automatically marked as a necro.
TL;DR, if the a Necro thread is revived with relevant information, DO NOT LOCK IT PLEASE.
That could end up with people necroing multiple threads and spamming the front page with them.
How about they get moved to a new sub forum (yes I know) called the graveyard?
That could end up with people necroing multiple threads and spamming the front page with them.
Don't lock necros at all. If you don't like them, don't read them. If people bumps necros just to bump necros, deal with the person.
If there is any vB mod to bury a thread so that I never see it again, it would be appreciated. There are threads in Off Topic that can stay up at the top for months or years at a time.
How about unbanning a huge group of people who were banned during the "great purge?" Many were never given reasons for said permabans...they just were.
I don't have a problem with people bumping old threads if there's a reason for it but you know that certain people are going to act like dicks and necro lots of random threads for no other reason than to annoy.What's wrong with that? If we already have a thread from 2002 called "What's your favorite pie" or whatever, wouldn't it be better for new entries to be added to than rather than a new thread be created?
How about unbanning a huge group of people who were banned during the "great purge?" Many were never given reasons for said permabans...they just were.
I don't have a problem with people bumping old threads if there's a reason for it but you know that certain people are going to act like dicks and necro lots of random threads for no other reason than to annoy.
I honestly thought we would be hearing from a bunch of those folks, but from what I've seen at the Kingdom of Crap and Neffers, most seem to think it's going to be "meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
ive been saying this for years
and more forums keep getting added.......
Id leave the CPU forum and the vid card forums seperage but merge Mobos, Memory, Power Supplies, Cases and prehip back into gen hardware. HTPCs and SFF can go together as well
Move the *Nix stuff into ther OS forum, you could prob move security into the Windows software forum as well as thats what most of it is
P&N and Discussion club just need to be mreged as they are the same thing at this point
One of the nice things about ATOT is you never know what you'll find there. Except that it won't be pron and it won't be nasty politics. I like that. But now you won't find health & fitness discussion. Or car discussion. Or home & garden discussion...
What I'm wondering is if it's possible to make a "forum" in vBulletin, which you can't post to, but which shows the posts from all sub-forums? For example, look here. That forum has lots of subforums. You can't post to that forum, but you can post to any sub-forum, and the post will appear in the main forum. Edit: But, of course, that's not a vBulletin site.
If that's possible, I'd like Off Topic to be a main forum, that you can't post directly to, and have Health & Fitness, The Garage, Home & Garden, and almost everything else (edit: everything else social, that is) be sub-forums that you can post to. Obviously there should also be a catch-all for anything else - it's just that if the parent is "Off Topic" I don't know what to call the catch-all forum.
As for what not to put in this "Off Topic parent" forum, I would exclude Politics & News - they have different moderation requirements and can be nastier. Maybe Discussion Club as well, but I'm not sure. I would also exclude Love & Relationships. As users who aren't logged in can't see posts in L&R, they shouldn't see the posts listed or blank spaces for them in "Off Topic parent".
An update to my post:
- This looks like a plausible mechanism to implement what I'm requesting in the post I linked to above. (But I really don't know since I can't see the code.)
- This could apply to lots of other sections, to fix what [post=37007401]Dullard wants fixed[/post] without actually eliminating the subforums.
If a Necro thread is revived with a post made to illustrate how times and opinions have changed, or to show history has repeated itself, it shouldn't be locked. Sometimes those old threads are a time capsule to anywhere from our childhood to early thirties. To revisit those times are good.
aren`t you the guy who posted that somebody passed away out of spite and in a malicious manner? I wouldn`t say a whole lot about the mods...+1
Mods killed off tons of members to just do it. What they didn't realize that more members=more ad revenue. Especially banning over not even trivial stuff, but the unknown.