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Kitty Barnett
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Join date: 10 May 2006
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07-19-2007 18:06
I'm not sure where forum suggestions should go, if anywhere :p.

Is there a reason why threads aren't automatically locked after a certain period of time? I know it's a feature of vBulletin :confused:.
Strife Onizuka
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07-22-2007 01:13
It's not a very friendly thing to do, thread necromancy isn't always a bad thing. We do sometimes lock problem threads after they have faded from sight.
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Jarred Tammas
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08-13-2007 10:01
A few boards I'm on that use vBulletin rarely use that feature. It's only handy if it's a time sensitive thread like "we need blah blah to apply be 15 Aug" and have the thread close at that date. Other then that, like Strife hit the nail on the head.

Also earlier versions of vBulletin don't have that feature.
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Griffin McAlpine
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08-14-2007 05:14
Id be against this, especially in the scripting forums. Its remarkble how many times things have popped up from the dead that provided clues to problems that have been sitting in the background. Or ... have suggested new areas to explore that I hadnt even considered before.

In the former seach wouldnt have helped as the subject was for something different from what I was thinking about and in the latter hadnt even started thinking about it. Personally i'm not fussed about the age of a post as long as long as the content is good.
SuezanneC Baskerville
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08-22-2007 18:48
These forums are reduced in utility more by the many recently started threads filled with posts that grossly, deliberately, repeatedly violate the community standards, forum guidelines, forum descriptions, and sub-forum rule stickies than they are by the occasional reply to an old thread by someone who has searched long and hard to find an old post on a subject of interest to them.
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Gordon Wendt
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08-22-2007 19:06
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
These forums are reduced in utility more by the many recently started threads filled with posts that grossly, deliberately, repeatedly violate the community standards, forum guidelines, forum descriptions, and sub-forum rule stickies than they are by the occasional reply to an old thread by someone who has searched long and hard to find an old post on a subject of interest to them.


Considering how senseless and utterly stupid a lot of the forum rules are and considering LL's inability to actually give the residents forums that they can actually use within the rules (General discussion) then breaking the rules is not always a bad thing.
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Strife Onizuka
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08-23-2007 00:02
From: Gordon Wendt
Considering how senseless and utterly stupid a lot of the forum rules are...
Oh? Which rules?
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Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river.
- Cyril Connolly

Without the political will to find common ground, the continual friction of tactic and counter tactic, only creates suspicion and hatred and vengeance, and perpetuates the cycle of violence.
- James Nachtwey