(August 10, 2021 at 11:46 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: While no one is required to like AF rules (I object to some of them myself), we’re all required to follow them.
(August 12, 2021 at 4:00 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: The simple fact is that there are rules in place that people will disagree with (hell, I disagree with some), but you can't please everyone and if we got rid of all the rules that people disagree with, we wouldn't have any.
That's two admins saying that they disagree with some of the rules on here. Why not start an internal discussion in order to change or eliminate those rules with which you guys disagree?
Also, a bit more on topic, why not create different categories of rules, where you have some that need a strict response (such as spamming, trolling, etc) and others that are mostly guidelines (like necroposting)? These two categories would then trigger different levels of response, of course.
As it is, you guys say "rules are there to be followed" and then exaggerate on some reactions. Like the OP suggesting warnings for people who do something that's not at all disruptive.
So the question becomes, Why is there a rule against necroposting at all?
1. The OP has left or has no interest in continuing the discussion. - fine, but others may want to continue it, so why not allow that?
2. The thread rises to the top and people who want to read the whole thread, will be confronted with some backlog. - Not exactly something that's disruptive to the forum, I think. Why not allow that?
3. Some obscure database related reason that hampers the forum's functionality when an old thread needs to be recovered from the depths of the archive. - fair enough, so why don't we just automatically lock these threads?
4. ... {fill your own} ...
Oh, but the rule isn't against necroposting at all, it's more like "Egregious or disruptive necroposting is not allowed."
So... why was this thread even made?
Have people been doing a lot of egregious or disruptive necroposting recently? Or have they been making some of this and some legitimate necroposting?
On a forum as old as this one, it's fair to find that there are a few subjects that have already been discussed, and some newer people may find it's easier to continue that discussion than start a new one. As I understand it, this would not be against the rules.
If they've been disruptive, then those who come here to disrupt will not read this thread and will not care about increasing the time until a thread becomes buried from 30 to 60 days.
