Reviving Old Topics.

[Perishable]

Hello everyone.

For this to work, we need the community to agree with this suggestion. I really think we should allow forum users to revive old topic and be able to post on them. The newly joined user always get shut off and topic gets closed. How will we help them or know what they are talking about if they make a new topic. The topic they post in can give us some explaination why they post on it. They really do not know they couldn't revive old topics. And we give warnings and punishment for reviving old topic. All they are doing is asking for support and in need of information. I just think this needs to changed. We could meet alot critia and improvement. To be honest, I don't understand why we can't revive old topic though. I can understand that some topics is assorted and off topic and that shouldn't be revived but hotwabout some important one. Hear me out.

[Beautiful]

+1

some places should have a no topic revive. but especially in the guides section i feel like there is a 99% chance that an already made guide would help them play a class and they just need a little bit more information and i do not see the harm in reviving an old topic

[Nightvol]

+1

[Andromeda]

I'm not exactly sure about this idea, guys. The purpose of not reviving the older topics was to prevent non-meaningful reviving, which probably would happen a lot if we actually allowed it. Honestly speaking though, I would rather see a brand new topic about the same matter than 1 year old revived topic. But well, other option, perhaps better is - we allow reviving older topics only under a condition you have a specific question/comment on the matter in that topic and that the topic maker is still active. If you see that a person who created the guide quit 1 year ago, I don't think he/she could help any of us.

In this case, any random comments which would pull the old topic on top of the list again, would still result in a warning and closing the topic. What do you guys think about that? (:

Edited April 26, 2012 by Andromeda

[Perishable]

You say you rather see a brand new topic about the matter but that's you, not us. Punishing or warning players about reviving old topic make them feel like they're bad. We're warning them like they did something wrong. All they did or do was ask questions related to the topic they don't understand and would like to get some information from the request. I can understand that if the comment or post is like "Lol' or like "cool", then they should know better. They revived topic because they actually put time into finding the old topic and were searching for them and it interest them. To be honest, it is interesting finding topics that make you post in them because we missed out on it. Sorry, just saying.

[Andromeda]

Reviving old topics: (Please, read what the date of the last post is before you post yourself.)

First offense:

-10% Warn.

-Topic closed.

Second offense:

-10% Warn.

-3 day posting restriction.

-Topic closed.

Everyone has different opinion. If people were to read the rules, anyone would know what reviving an old topic actually brings. So, saying they "do not know" isn't exactly an exuse for anyone here. But to put this aside, that's what I've been trying to suggest - non-meaningful comments like "Lol", "cool", etc. would still be punished if it was posted in older topic, while if there was a specific question, we'd let it open and see how conversation goes on. (:

Edited April 27, 2012 by Andromeda

[Perishable]

Let it be.

[Levis]

I don't think we will write "Lol" or "Cool" in an old topic, honestly we won't. I agree TOTALLY with Perishable, thus we should only allow it to an extent as Andromeda wishes.

[Ryuk]

I'd say keep the current rules. But don't apply them on guides. Guides are not based on a timeline and will stay useful for a very long time. Having people re-discuss a certain guide after a long period of time won't do any harm. However reviving an old announcement topic can cause confusion and can do more harm than good. In that case the punishment should still be given.

I don't think we will write "Lol" or "Cool" in an old topic, honestly we won't. I agree TOTALLY with Perishable, thus we should only allow it to an extent as Andromeda wishes.

Posts such as "Lol" and "Cool" have been used to revive topics countless of times. Hence why the rule was established in the first place. These meaningless revivals should still be punished in my opinion. Regardless of where they would be posted.

[Levis]

Is that so? Yeah, as I said in my previous post, allow it to an extent, which will exclude those meaningless revivals.