Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25991365-20141213001154

This has been bugging me for ages. It has been bugging me for a solid year.

Ever since we introduced the necroposting rule, I was never certain about it being in the comments section but it seemed like a few other admins were already set on warning others about it.

It's been bothering me for a while, and I even tried to fix it with that old thread requesting that we delete the comment that's necroposting.

When I made that thread, I noticed  replies such as "I'm getting tired of having to monitor these" and I've been secretly wanting to make this thread for a while but I'm scared of all the backlash.

I'll just say it now:

No one gets notifed if a comment section is necroposted on, so we won't know if they reply to our comments unless we scour our contributions one day or read a recent comment reply.

So I think it's best that we leave the necroposting rule to threads only, because the necroposting warning doesn't work as well on the comments section. On threads, we can simply close the thread to either prevent it or to stop it. Even better if we close it as soon as we know the date of its relevance has been passed.

When we do it on the comments section, it's an easy way for them to retaliate and it causes unecessary arguments that I'm sick of dealing with.

I'm sure the admins here(myself included) don't enjoy the additional stress that users give them for merely warning them and it's not like those users listen anyway.

Comments seem harmless. The comment limit on the other hand I think should stay, because we still have that problem today. 