Is there a coherent policy for closing topics here?

iBertus · 2009-01-06 15:14:46

\me longs for more simple times when the Arch forum was a small community and not a demanding mob.

Misfit138 · 2009-01-06 15:48:07

Xyne wrote:

Thanks Misfit138.
This thread really wasn't a complaint, just a matter of curiosity (if it were the former, I would have been obliged by forum tradition to append about 5 more question marks to the thread subject ). If the tone comes across as anything else, I apologize. I really just wanted to get an idea of the reasoning behind closing certain threads because it didn't make sense to me. I also understand that each mod exercises a certain degree of discretion and that that leads to variations in policy application. I wasn't even criticizing that (at least not consciously, sorry again if it came off that way).

Not at all. No need for apologies.
As I said, you raise some excellent points, and we are all trying to address the growing pains of the distro by remaining as consistent and fair as possible.

dr/owned · 2009-01-12 03:39:45

u_no_hu wrote:

But is it necessary to kill them? Cant we show a bit of mercy to those old threads who had done their fair share for this forum? Cant we just allow them to rest peacefully and finally die the natural death ? Rather than shoot them just because the woke up unintentionally?

You made me laugh...."28 days later: forum edition"

I think that 90% of the time, threads that get revived will be from people coming off google and saying "oh yeah this isn't working for me either". If a thread is extremely old, most of the stuff being discussed originally probably won't be relevant anyways (since Arch is a rolling distro) and reviving the post will likely yield no results (and revive a post which pushes down new ones). I've just hardly ever seen a revived post get any attention.

I think the fairest thing to do would be make it so posts older than a year get closed automatically (as suggested), and long threads that are semi-old (3-12 months) should just have the relevant portions quoted and inserted in a new post. I know for me I don't like having to read through 5 pages of a discussion only to have a disjoined "me too" 3 months after it was dead.

And also, every forum needs to be forgiving about having multiple posts on a similar issue....we've all made the mistake where we just don't google the right terms to get where we need. I'm not saying this forum has had a problem with this, but I've seen some users get flamed out for not seeing they had a duplicate for some specialized subject.

bangkok_manouel · 2009-01-13 17:32:41

sorry Allan. absolutely nothing personal of course, but I really don't get it...

.:B:. · 2009-01-13 18:00:50

Xyne wrote:

Power is seldom relinquished willingly.

True that. Noone dares to take his mod powers away now

Dusty · 2009-01-13 19:50:14

bangkok_manouel wrote:

sorry Allan. absolutely nothing personal of course, but I really don't get it...

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … _The_Staff

Specifically:

Forum Etiquette wrote:

If you feel that an egregious oversight has been made, then pm the moderator group. Do not post complaints on the forum.

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finferflu · 2009-01-13 20:29:22

Well, Dusty's word stands clear and he's correct. Discussions about (and especially questioning on) staff moderation should not happen in these forums. If you have issues to raise, please send an email to the interested moderators.

Allan · 2009-01-14 02:39:26

And.... closing

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