The fact that they closed that discussion, yet we have a poster who has been keeping a thread going for years posting the exact same thing over and over- crowdfunding milestone updates- is absolutely silly.
Specifically considering that thread rarely ever garners any attention other than the same folks sarcastically criticizing the project periodically.
Crowdfunding milestones thread is a bit silly, but it's a thread where people post updates to the situation and have discussion. Imho the mods should almost never close a thread because it's "on-topic but too silly".
Whereas Amaranthar necroed a thread by bumping it. I don't think it's the mod's job to go out of their way to to evaluate "Whether this thread is special enough that we'll make exception and allow necroing by bumping it".
I'm not a mod on these forums and not speaking for these forum's moderators, but it would take too much time to evaluate threads like that, and also threads importance is too subjective question. A website with multiple moderators would have too hard time trying to draw any consistent line on what's allowed and what gets locked.
Considering the forum traffic situation, I'm not sure closing threads that are bumped is productive.
The fact that they closed that discussion, yet we have a poster who has been keeping a thread going for years posting the exact same thing over and over- crowdfunding milestone updates- is absolutely silly.
Specifically considering that thread rarely ever garners any attention other than the same folks sarcastically criticizing the project periodically.
Crowdfunding milestones thread is a bit silly, but it's a thread where people post updates to the situation and have discussion. Imho the mods should almost never close a thread because it's "on-topic but too silly".
Whereas Amaranthar necroed a thread by bumping it. I don't think it's the mod's job to go out of their way to to evaluate "Whether this thread is special enough that we'll make exception and allow necroing by bumping it".
I'm not a mod on these forums and not speaking for these forum's moderators, but it would take too much time to evaluate threads like that, and also threads importance is too subjective question. A website with multiple moderators would have too hard time trying to draw any consistent line on what's allowed and what gets locked.
Considering the forum traffic situation, I'm not sure closing threads that are bumped is productive.
Yeah, there's that too. And that falls right in line with my point about what's needed for "worlds" and this genre to make a comeback and bring back all those gamers who've left it due to the "just a game" issue.
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