Hey, so hopefully this is the right place to post this.

I had taken a very long break from Subeta and decided to start playing again last week. Since then, I've noticed a lot of big changes, some of the good, some of them bad, but the most significant of which was the forums. They don't seem anywhere near as active. It really made me quite sad, because back in the day, I really liked to post. I still like writing, so I figured that I would set myself a number of posts for each day and then reach that number. I'd try and liven things up as much as any one person can.

But there was one rule I was over-conscious about and it was the one about not reviving anything that's over three months old. I was doing very good at avoiding old threads as well, but I'm human and, a couple of nights ago, I slipped up in the literature forum. It's not the most active forum to begin with, but I just get really excited about books.

My suggestion is this: Keep inactive threads off the front page. Even if that leaves only one thread for people to reply to, they're not allowed to reply to the other threads anyway, so why not? It'd be similar to archiving old threads, but they're just moved to page two and beyond. I think that having a simple option for minimods to move a thread off the front page could not only keep people from reviving old threads, but it could keep things tidy as well and, if people see how fews threads are available to post in, they might be encouraged to create topics of their own.

But this was just something that popped into my head when I saw that I'd slipped. :) I understand that there's a lot of lag prevention nowadays and that the staff might be focused elsewhere at the moment. This might be a bit unnecessary in comparison to making sure that the site runs smoothly.

I always supported autolocking threads once they go inactive for 3 months if that's ever possible. I think having them locked makes more sense than moving them elsewhere, since pages are done by number of threads.

Either way is fine for me either move them off the front page or lock them, though locking may be better. No accidental slip-ups that way!

I'm with ; either way works for me. It does seem like something should be done about it, though, just to prevent accidental necros. I know I never look at the last posted date on any thread on the first page, lol.

Either your suggestion or that of kbbob would be great to see on the forums. I am wary of posting that much in the forums now, as I fear that I may accidentally necro a thread. Does that rule even apply to all subforums, or just the very active ones?

As far as I know the necroing rule applies to all forums except for Suggestions & Ideas, but it slides from time to time in the less active forums.

Thank you very much! :)

I can confirm that it applies to all forums. The literature board is incredibly slow. I think that there might only be a few active threads, hence why I necro'd a thread so easily. It did take a few days for a mod to pick up on it though, probably also because the board is so slow.

if this 'no necroing after 3 months' rule MUST be implemented, then im all for the autolocks. it immediately solves accidental necroing. but i also think thay since certain boards here really do move so slow, must this rule really be put into place? :c

Honestly, even something as simple as a colour code would be incredibly useful when it comes to finding threads to respond to. A faint green background for eligible threads, a faint red for ineligible threads?

I've also just noticed that I revived a thread in the internet forum without intending to, and that it's been locked. I didn't receive a ping before it was locked, so I didn't realise. Are there warnings associated with necroing a thread? Could doing it uninitially, multiple times, hurt my experience on this website? It's a little bit concerning. I might post these questions on the help board.

Yeah, I'd support the auto-locking if that's something they'd be able to program in. Keeps the threads around, but no more accidental revivals of old threads.

I am all for this suggestion. They should be locked which will cause them to be eventually bumped from the first page.

I have never really understood why super old boards weren't just auto-locked after 3 months anyway. Like, if you don't want us posting on them, locking them just makes the most sense? I think locking would be easier than pushing them pages back.

The necro rule does not apply to all forums (i.e. P&B) or even all threads (anything on the 'Useful ______' sticky does not apply).

As far as I am aware there's no punitive action for necroing, and sometimes staff are lenient on locking the threads afterward.

Rather than knocking it off the first page or auto-locking, what if 'inactive' threads were grayed out?

Grayed out would also be an option! Much better than my "green for active, red for inactive" suggestion, to be honest.

Lock them or mark them differently, either way, something like this would be helpful.

Necroed threads are just locked so no, no punitive action. That said, I'd be fine with a way to distinguish them as being an old thread, i.e via giving it a different color or auto locking.

Also, ditto on it not applying to all forums. It doesn't apply in suggestions because people tend to re-post suggestions and obviously it doesn't apply to P&B and individual forum stickies.

Well, I support them auto-locking.

And certainly, if they can create code to auto-lock threads that reach 3 months, then they can (I would expect) leave that code off of those subforums (and probably find a way to exclude those stickied/starred threads).

I figured it would be an obvious thing to not auto-lock on those other subforums.