Is it possible to auto-lock a thread made in the game advertisements category? Was wondering if it would be more beneficial for game runners to be able to make their ad, the forum locks it after the initial post, and if people are wound up about it they can discuss it in the appropriate location(s).

Pavel pinned the post I made a couple months back

The best example i can think of is like the “what to do if someone hacks your game” information that I think i remember on some board or another having stickied. Like after that is posted there’s not going to be discussion about it most likely. But if it’s in an active subcategory it might get buried. Things like that.

Whenever I’ve seen boards use a best of thing, it just isn’t valuable. Because it just becomes part of the scenery. Or a certain group of people really likes it but it’s not super valuable to new people (who may not even get it) and it becomse part of the scenery even faster. But you could have a board specifically for directions on how to do certain things that would serve the same purpose, not that people would know to check there first but for the folks that like to be helpful then could scan that board and then link the relevant post in the current discussion.

However, I acknowledge that not everyone’s brains are like mine and so maybe pinned and highlighted threads really do pop for some people every time. But arbiting what is worthy and dealing with people who maybe wonder why their thing wasn’t worthy but another person’s was just doesn’t sound like very much fun to me.

Which could be an argument for that wiki that I’ve joked about that is closer to just a new, better maintained MU Connector, but with links to feedback threads and whatnot.

But I don’t think anyone would want us being the arbiters of what’s worth preserving and what isn’t. So I’d say some kind of age cutoff? “This thread hasn’t been posted in for six months, let’s archive it.”

This is the part that I stick on, too, but I do see the point about someone coming and deleting everything.

ETA: On the other hand, good or bad, someone has control of their content and I’m not sure I’d want to take that away from them.

But if you do reply and quote them, it’s saved forever anyway. Sooooo.

I leave it up to admins to decide on whether it’s even something of merit.

Nah, man. We’re janitors, not governors. It’s up to you lot.

ETA - I should probably add part of why I bring this up is whether admins can disable editing and deletion in the bad-posters archive so that there will always be a receipt to refer to when someone tries to claim “I never said that”.

I believe there’s functionality to allow that.

But I don’t think anyone would want us being the arbiters of what’s worth preserving and what isn’t. So I’d say some kind of age cutoff? “This thread hasn’t been posted in for six months, let’s archive it.”

@Pavel said in GOOD DAY: Feedback:

@dvoraen Well, we won’t be importing threads from other forums. But we also don’t really intend on deleting threads either, so they’ll always be there to see and link to.

It’s possible that when a thread has been unused for a while, it’ll be moved to a read-only archive section, but we’ve not been around long enough to even have discussions on that topic, yet.

RE: Bolded. Not my intention here. That was strictly an example so Tez got where I was coming from. All I’m saying is that we should have a section – or sections, if we want to quarantine the bad from the good – for posterity!

Well, honestly, the whole place is for posterity. It’s a possibility for the future, but the conversations we’d want to preserve are still actively engaged with at the moment.

@dvoraen Well, we won’t be importing threads from other forums. But we also don’t really intend on deleting threads either, so they’ll always be there to see and link to.

It’s possible that when a thread has been unused for a while, it’ll be moved to a read-only archive section, but we’ve not been around long enough to even have discussions on that topic, yet.

RE: Bolded. Not my intention here. That was strictly an example so Tez got where I was coming from. All I’m saying is that we should have a section – or sections, if we want to quarantine the bad from the good – for posterity!

ETA - I should probably add part of why I bring this up is whether admins can disable editing and deletion in the bad-posters archive so that there will always be a receipt to refer to when someone tries to claim “I never said that”.

It’s possible that when a thread has been unused for a while, it’ll be moved to a read-only archive section, but we’ve not been around long enough to even have discussions on that topic, yet.

I’m not saying glorify the creeper/predator threads; the pendulum should swing both ways and include other threads like Crawfishy’s cat art thread because that should be archived for posterity too!