20-09-2007, 04:54 PM | #21 | ||
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And disgusting :vomit: Our forum should be amusing, don't you know !?
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20-09-2007, 05:16 PM | #22 | ||
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Romano @ Sep 20 2007, 05:54 PM) [snapback]312068[/snapback]</div>
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anyyywayyy...DA BOMB...OUT!!!
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Anyway, there's a great feature added at the FreeHare forum about this.
If you're trying to post something in a thread that is older then 120 days you will see a message in red letters warning you about resurection. It tells you to only post in this old thread if you're really sure you'd contribute something (so people wouldn't have to look at the date of the last post in worry of resurecting old topics). Not sure if it's a board thing or something specially coded, but it could be a good idea to use with the new Abandonia design. |
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This is actually rather interesting. My knee-jerk response to resurrection of old threads is, "Don't do that!" When I think about it, however, I can't come up with a really good justification for starting a new thread over posting in an old one if my post will add something to the discussion. I've never administered a forum, but from a technical standpoint it seems like a post tacked onto an old thread would actually consume slightly less disk space than the first post of a new thread - not the text of the post itself, of course, but the other things associated with it, like a new thread title and pointers and whatnot. (Please correct me if I'm wrong on this; I'd like to know for sure.)
So, can anyone come up with a really good reason for starting a new thread as opposed to resurrecting an old one? Please back up your reason with whatever data you've got handy. ("It's bad netiquette" doesn't count, because I want to know why it's bad.)
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21-09-2007, 12:34 AM | #25 | ||
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When you don't need the old posts for a new discussion, you should open a new thread to have easy navigation, to have nobody thinking he is forced to read the old stuff and to don't confuse people into thinking the old stuff is new.
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21-09-2007, 12:40 AM | #26 | ||
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21-09-2007, 12:55 AM | #27 | ||
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Yeah, and I'm not strict regarding threadsurrections at all, as long as they aren't so frequent that the living discussions are transported out of sight.
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1. Grand Dad 2. Borodin 3. Romano 4.<strike> You </strike> About etiquette and netiquette I can only say that some young people here are unmannered. Unfortunately some of them are moderators, and that is a shame. [/b][/quote] 1. Grand Dad 2. Borodin 3. Romano 4. Myself Second oldest....? In your dreams big baby. :bleh: [/b][/quote] I click Borodin and it just brings up Grandad again. Will have to look him up. Ok maybe I'm your only veteran then.
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Even if we take the common sense issues out (which I just can't, for the love of me, understand why you would. They are very basic to me anyways), it is extremely rare that if you dig up a three old thread you'll even be talking about the same thing. Most of all the threads on this forum will be internet or game related, and it's also extremely rare that the subject didn't change at all in all that time. In term of technological advance in the computer area, one month can easily compare to one year of real time only because of the improvements on the market, production and whatnot. What would I have said to try to help someone run a DOS game around 20 years ago? Use Memmaker, run thru all steps in setup.exe and make sure you've selected the right sound card. [insert obscure DOS comment about some obscure DOS command here for extreme cases] Around 15 years ago? Just upgrade man, don't bother. Otherwise, use Memmaker,... etc. Around 10 years ago? Use compatibility mode or MS Prompt to play DOS games. And pray sound works, else you'll need to set soundblaster up your autoexec.bat and config.sys files. Around 5 years ago and up? Use DOSBox. Solves all problems. -- I was myself MOD of the troubleshooting section for a while, and I was known for enforcing the rules (both custom and forum wide) to the fullest of my allowed capacities with an iron grip. One of my own custom rules were to actually encourage people to create new individual topics even if we then ended up with several topics about the exact same problem. The logic behind this was very simple: even if we really would have ended up with several topics about the same problem with the same game at the same time, all those people who came to the troubleshooting section all have different hardware, different ways of thinking, different range of skills and computer knowledge, different questions and different expectations. It's like running a customer service care: would you put some people on hold after telling them that you'll place them on queue for the group counseling so they can answer the question of everybody all at once? You just don't care about that: you called for an answer to a specific question, you just want a specific answer and 90% of those who called didn't even bother (or didn't think, or didn't know) to look in the troubleshooting section widely available for all to see to make sure their problem is not even covered in the first place. And that's quite understandable, considering that most users who come that that place are already either angry, annoyed or depressed about a simple problem they just can't seem to understand or put their finger on. Anyways, I'm beginning to turn this into some kind of rant... Long story short: those people who started threads age ago in the troubleshooting section probably don't even care to come back to check after so long if someone posted a fix to their problem. First of all, they probably solved the problem themselves age ago. Second, they might have found the fix elsewhere and didn't bothered to post back (which happen quite often if I remember well) or third, they might just not even remember they posted in this forum in the first place. Resurecting such threads is then just pointless and uncalled for, and take time and spirit out of those who actually care about reading every single thread to try to help people out only to realise they wasted half an hour reading something they've already posted in. I talk from experience here. <_< Of course, most of what I just said specifically apply for the troubleshooting section... But isn't what we're talking about anyways? |
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I love this thread.
That is all LOL
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