(10-03-2014, 01:16 AM)roger_smith Wrote: So I've noticed some grave digging lately and I know that tends to make people the crank sauce. There should be some way to implement an auto-close on threads that have not had a reply in the last say 60 or 90 days or something. Set the threshold to whatever, but that would prevent a lot of necromancers from performing their dark art.

Thoughts? Suggestions? hate mail?

(10-03-2014, 02:26 AM)Adorapuff Wrote: So how about x days since last post opposed to topic created. Boom problem solved.

(10-03-2014, 02:26 AM)Adorapuff Wrote: Boom problem solved.

(10-03-2014, 02:20 AM)2460h1 Wrote: I am with @Tarew - Gravedigging is only really gravedigging if the topic is dead. Dead does not necessarily mean simply age. If you find a thread thats unanswered but 3 years old and you answer it - that benefits the community. It may not benefit the OP but you never know who might find the answer in a Google result. Having solid threads that answer questions will attract new users.

Likewise - If someone asks a simple question a week ago and gets answered immediately. Yet 5 days later someone else posts the same answer. Or something off topic. They are gravedigging. This goes for people who simply post ~"nice tut" or an equally LQ response on a 2 week old tutorial or a 3 year old tutorial.

I am more inclined to believe that LQ posting should be punished by the mods rather than having a system based method for automatically closing threads after an arbitrary amount of time. I moderate/administrate a few other forums and this is the approach I take . If someone does it once I hit the delete button (LQ Posts, not Gravedigging, although they often overlap). If someone goes on a spamming spree and does it 20-30 times (Eg C/P the same thing) I give them a warning and state that this is unacceptable.

(10-03-2014, 02:40 AM)2460h1 Wrote: Because it's only a problem if you think it's a problem. I would suspect that the problem is more that people are posting LQ stupid shit on old threads that don't contribute anything to the discussion.

I'd be hard pressed to believe that once a thread reaches an age of X that it is automatically no good any more regardless of the content or what someone could potentially still contribute.

(10-03-2014, 01:29 AM)Tarew Wrote: I don't think so. As long as the most recent posts are relevant and the thread is actually still good and useful, I could careless if it get's gravedug and I think most members here still think the same way.