PSA: Update to necroposting rule

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

This presents a bit of a quandary.  I went to resurrect the thread about "what you are reading now", only to realize that it would be closed according to the necropost rule and I also realize that the new necropost rule is, to my mind, unreasonable.  Not only would an added post to that thread result in its closure, posting to this thread would according to rule result in its closure as well.  So what are the alternatives?  Start a new thread?  For this thread and the what are you reading thread, that would be stupid.  There's no reason to have multiple threads on the same subject simply because posts to a thread are sparse or intermittent.  That's unreasonable.  Not post anything that might pertain to said topic?  I doubt shutting down conversation and forcing people to censor themselves on specific topics makes sense, either.  The main problem is that the rule is indiscriminate in which kind of threads and necroposts the rule applies to.  And it's an obvious case of lashing out by a few staff who can't deal with the occasional necropost.  So instead you've used a sledgehammer to kill a mosquito.  The predictable result being the invocation of unintended consequences.  I'd like to think staff can think up a better way to deal with this issue than the current practice because the current practice is stupid.

There are exceptions to everything. The rule was amended because we had a few (not many) members that were resurrecting threads more than ten years old.

No one’s going to go all sledgehammery over ALL necroposts. As far as I’m concerned, you can feel free to bring back ‘What Are You Reading’.

In future if you’re not sure, you can always ask in Questions For Staff. If you have a better suggestion that what we’re doing now, we’d be happy to consider it.

Sorry for all the stupid.

Boru