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    I honestly don't see what's wrong with gravedigging. If the thread is in the forum, it's still part of the community, meaning it should be allowed to be bumped/posted on. I don't consider gravedigging a big deal.
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    So you're saying a 3 year old thread should be allowed to be bumped and that person posts 'Thanks' or a one word reply or things of the like? There is no reason the thread should be brought back to life and It's happened before.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Austin_ View Post
    So you're saying a 3 year old thread should be allowed to be bumped and that person posts 'Thanks' or a one word reply or things of the like? There is no reason the thread should be brought back to life and It's happened before.
    Old threads should be allowed to be bumped if something interesting is said. There really isn't a problem with it imho.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham View Post
    Old threads should be allowed to be bumped if something interesting is said. There really isn't a problem with it imho.
    Which then brings us into the territory of "how do we determine what is interesting". If we did that then people might start getting confused and think that the gravedigging rule has gone, it's hard to determine what's interesting and what isn't and at the same time punish someone for asking for a download link to something thats expired in 2008.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scu11 View Post
    Which then brings us into the territory of "how do we determine what is interesting". If we did that then people might start getting confused and think that the gravedigging rule has gone, it's hard to determine what's interesting and what isn't and at the same time punish someone for asking for a download link to something thats expired in 2008.
    In the case of people bumping for old links, yes they should be punished, however if someone has bumped a thread containing something worth discussing and that what they posted contributes to that discussion, there's no reason that shouldn't be allowed.
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    I don't see any reason why gravedigging is forbidden. A lot of people can find those old topics useful.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kLeptO View Post
    I don't see any reason why gravedigging is forbidden. A lot of people can find those old topics useful.
    The rule applies mainly to threads in help sections and such which have been irrelevant for years where someone comes in and says something along the lines of "i hav t4is pr0bol3m t000 y u no help me plz help pl0x", often times where the question's been answered.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Maggot View Post
    The rule applies mainly to threads in help sections and such which have been irrelevant for years where someone comes in and says something along the lines of "i hav t4is pr0bol3m t000 y u no help me plz help pl0x", often times where the question's been answered.
    And what's wrong with that? If you think that the post was intended to be spam/troll, then do your job and remove it.

    What's wrong if that post was genuine? Surely its better to use the same thread then forcing that person to make a new thread. I don't see why the thread creation date should make any difference, its nothing more then a couple of numbers.

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    This still appears to be an issue. There are a number of threads in the Informative Threads section which have been silently locked for no obvious reason whatsoever. Here are a few examples:

    https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape...h-names-2.html
    https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape...e-codes-2.html
    https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape...rs-work-5.html
    https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape...rs-mean-2.html

    SWAT's response in the last one highlights the issue, I think:

    Quote Originally Posted by SWAT View Post
    I dont see why this should be open
    There shouldn't need to be a justification for a thread being open - this is a discussion forum. There should be justification for them being closed. Closing threads should be an exceptional action for when there can honestly be no further valuable discussion, at all, and all other moderation attempts have failed. It should not be used when a moderator thinks that the thread has run its course.

    My response here serves as a perfect example of why threads don't need to be closed when discussion "finishes" - this is a continuation of the discussion, just 7 years late.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jameskmonger View Post
    This still appears to be an issue. There are a number of threads in the Informative Threads section which have been silently locked for no obvious reason whatsoever. Here are a few examples:

    https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape...h-names-2.html
    https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape...e-codes-2.html
    https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape...rs-work-5.html
    https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape...rs-mean-2.html

    SWAT's response in the last one highlights the issue, I think:



    There shouldn't need to be a justification for a thread being open - this is a discussion forum. There should be justification for them being closed. Closing threads should be an exceptional action for when there can honestly be no further valuable discussion, at all, and all other moderation attempts have failed. It should not be used when a moderator thinks that the thread has run its course.

    My response here serves as a perfect example of why threads don't need to be closed when discussion "finishes" - this is a continuation of the discussion, just 7 years late.
    Lol nice grave dig 7 years
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