Low-to-no activity accounts necroing threads, ESPECIALLY bug threads, then disappearing for extended periods only to do the same thing, is a rampant issue that wastes mod & user time to deal with.
I will not publicly speculate on the purpose of this pattern anymore, but this practice needs to be nipped in the bud, as it's clogging sections.
I think some employee(s) should either:
A:Explicitly forbid low-effort thread necroing for new/mostly inactive accounts or B: Compile a list of allegedly "unanswered/ignored" threads that trigger this behavior, and make a FAQ of some kind on these subjects so people can stop feeling ignored.
Because this necromancy is getting out of hand, & either these threads need to be addressed, or the behavior pattern does, because it ends up being a plague of rule-breaking upon rule-breaking posts(Thread Necromancy, Doesn't contribute to the discussion, off-topic, spamming, etc)
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Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Are these threads about bugs that still haven't been fixed? If so then it seems reasonable for people to post in them, to flag up that it's still unresolved or to complain that nothings being done. It's better that they revive an old thread than each of them start a new one.
Of course your suggestion b) would stop a lot of the posts, but would require DDB to actually communicate with us, something they seem unwilling to do.
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Low-to-no activity accounts necroing threads, ESPECIALLY bug threads, then disappearing for extended periods only to do the same thing, is a rampant issue that wastes mod & user time to deal with.
I will not publicly speculate on the purpose of this pattern anymore, but this practice needs to be nipped in the bud, as it's clogging sections.
I think some employee(s) should either:
A:Explicitly forbid low-effort thread necroing for new/mostly inactive accounts
or
B: Compile a list of allegedly "unanswered/ignored" threads that trigger this behavior, and make a FAQ of some kind on these subjects so people can stop feeling ignored.
Because this necromancy is getting out of hand, & either these threads need to be addressed, or the behavior pattern does, because it ends up being a plague of rule-breaking upon rule-breaking posts(Thread Necromancy, Doesn't contribute to the discussion, off-topic, spamming, etc)
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Do you have any examples of this behavior?
Are these threads about bugs that still haven't been fixed? If so then it seems reasonable for people to post in them, to flag up that it's still unresolved or to complain that nothings being done. It's better that they revive an old thread than each of them start a new one.
Of course your suggestion b) would stop a lot of the posts, but would require DDB to actually communicate with us, something they seem unwilling to do.