What about necro bumps?

[Don Pedro Dinero]

Every now and then I come across a thread like the following:

what can you do without money?

The thread was created in October 2017 after 7 years since the last comment, people have only recently started commenting. I think it would be convenient to lock that kind of thread and if someone thinks it would be interesting to comment on something similar they can open a thread, 7 years later (although in the specific case of that thread I think it would be fine to be trashed as the OP is low value and has quite a few comments of that style).

[Husires]

report any old topic need to be locked to admin/Moderators and give people who post spam a negative Karma.
The forum tries to be friendly to everyone, but sometimes some decisions must be taken to limit spam.

[dkbit98]

I think it would be convenient to lock that kind of thread and if someone thinks it would be interesting to comment on something similar they can open a thread

I would probably report most of the post like this to moderators in any forum, especially if this they are made by members wearing paid signatures.
However, this post was made in General Discussion board, and I consider this similar like off-topic board in bitcointalk forum.
Start reporting in all other boards and let's see how moderators will react.

[yhiaali3]

It is never appropriate to respond to a topic after seven years!! Especially since the topic is less than normal and does not deserve all this discussion. However, if the topic deserves to be discussed and revived, it is better to start a new thread, as you mentioned.

I also believe that it is not only the duty of moderators, but also the duty of campaign managers to warn members who commit these things just to get weekly payment and to consider these posts as spam that are not eligible for payment.

[Jokers]

If you see necro bumping which doesn't add anything important to the discussion, you can give -karma and report it.

But the General Discussion section is a kind of off topic section, posts in there don't count as activity and I moderate it softly. I don't delete necro bumps, evaluation of the level of low quality posts is much softer in there, etc. So if it is a very annoying post, you can give -karma, but if there is no harder violation (plagiarism including AI bot text, scam, SEO link spam, etc.) I'll hardly delete it or issue a registered warning. General Discussion is a place where users can relax a bit, talk about mostly everything, etc.

[Lucius]

@Jokers, is there any warning for those who want to make a post in an old topic? I know that there is a warning on BTT, if I'm not mistaken, if no one has made a post in the topic for 120 days - but even that sometimes doesn't help that someone doesn't decide to bring up old topics for completely unjustified reasons.

[Jokers]

@Jokers, is there any warning for those who want to make a post in an old topic?

Of course.


So if there's nothing really important to add to an old topic, it is of course better not to bump it. But some ignore any warnings...

[ZAINmalik75]

if someone thinks it would be interesting to comment on something similar they can open a thread, 7 years later (although in the specific case of that thread I think it would be fine to be trashed as the OP is low value and has quite a few comments of that style).

The thread is locked, I think it locked after this topic, thanks to you then it's a good step you took, I suggest please lock each and every old thread' whose OP is not active anymore. I saw threads where the OP has not active for years. So why we are still replying there? I can understand one might not be giving a reply to OP only but one reply on these old topics takes them to the top of the section.

I got frustrated opening and closing them one by one after knowing the thread was old, It's not that I don't want to make a post on old threads due to some rules of my campaigns, its just looks so unprofessional and unrealistic for me to start a discussion which is so old and needs no attention now.

[Jokers]

I saw threads where the OP has not active for years. So why we are still replying there?

Lobachevskian geometry is still discussed despite Nikolai Lobachevsky himself died in 1856. Should we stop? It doesn't have sense.

When you discuss something in the topic you take part in a discourse with multiple users in the topic and the topic starter's impact becomes less and less important with each page. Doesn't matter if the topic starter is inactive for years if you answer someone who is interested in the topic and wrote something meaningful a couple of days ago.

[bitterguy28]

I have often see necrobumping in this forum specially now that there are many teleported accounts that some abused bumping even a  4 year old sleeping thread , but what I do is that checking if the post or the reply they are bringing is worth it and also valid argument but once I found them just a spam to have another count for their posts? then I keep reporting them to Moderator/admin so they will evaluate if needed to delete or will just let them there .
maybe in this our help is a big in need because there are so much thread here that cannot be administer just like that and we can keep eye and report those.

[Jokers]

then I keep reporting them to Moderator/admin so they will evaluate if needed to delete or will just let them there .

IMO most correct decision. You can also give -karma for those who leave some meaningless necro bumping posts just to increase the post count. Let's make our forum more comfortable for everyone together!

[Lucius]

~snip~
So if there's nothing really important to add to an old topic, it is of course better not to bump it. But some ignore any warnings...

Thanks for the info, but in the end everything depends on the situation - because today I bumped an old topic on BTT because I had the same problem described in that topic and it didn't make sense for me to open a new one. I think that no one will (or should) be too upset about such "justified exceptions".

[robelneo]

Every now and then I come across a thread like the following:

what can you do without money?

The thread was created in October 2017 after 7 years since the last comment, people have only recently started commenting. I think it would be convenient to lock that kind of thread and if someone thinks it would be interesting to comment on something similar they can open a thread, 7 years later (although in the specific case of that thread I think it would be fine to be trashed as the OP is low value and has quite a few comments of that style).

There are a lot of open and old topics that are not relevant in our times we should not bump this thread or if there is a need to create a topic similar to that old topic then we should create a new one rephrase it and add some updates to the new thread that are not in the old topic.
Some topics like market trends cannot exist for a long time or when it already generated a lot of replies the essence of the thread is losing its direction.

[Faisal2202]

The thread was created in October 2017 after 7 years since the last comment, people have only recently started commenting. I think it would be convenient to lock that kind of thread and if someone thinks it would be interesting to comment on something similar they can open a thread, 7 years later (although in the specific case of that thread I think it would be fine to be trashed as the OP is low value and has quite a few comments of that style).

You are right, topics like these should be locked but not trashed as they are already counted in the forum stats as well, and things need a little dusting here on this forum so, the mods, or admin might not prefer to delete the old topics instead locking them would be a better decision. I also saw many old topics and the frustrating thing is to know the dates of the topics, I have to open them and then close them after seeing the dates, I wonder if anyone else is facing the same issue.

Well besides locking topics like these, it would be best that we are given an extra feature that would tell us when this topic is made, instead of the last post made on that topic, or is there any way to do that already and I'm not aware of that. Then do let me know. People actually don't really see when the topics was made, or either the OP is active or not, they just see the last post and started to make posts there. I might have also made some posts on such thread also.

[philipma1957]

It was a good thread for general discussion. Since it was closed I opened this one.

https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=317815.0

So feel free to answer the new thread.🧵