14 Day Rule...Consider this?

[funkeh_renn]

A post that bumps an old (more than 14 days) topic back up

 

 

I was just thinking that the time period is a bit err ridiculous, don't take that the wrong way, it was the easiest word I could find ^^

 

I think just about every forum I go to has it at least at 30 days and then in forums such as roleplaying/fanfics/debates they do not have it because debates can go on for a while, and people may have put some research into one debate, so deleting that topic (locked ones when you clean up the forum) because, "They can always make another one." loses alot of people's hard work. There was recently a situation like that on a forum I know who had clean ups only every 30 days... and a really large ongoing debate was deleted..losing pages (because some of us like to write ALOT when we debate) and everyone flamed the moderator even though it wasn't their fault =/ But it did lead to a change in how the system works.

 

Plus this isn't the most active of forums I've seen so it makes more sense to have a longer 'bumping period'.

[Xepha]

We use our common sense with that rule...

 

I can give you some examples. Somebody who goes into the "news" forum and bump several old threads will get a verbal warn from our moderators. However, if somebody has something to say relatively to a topic, like a debate, they won't get in trouble. It's all about how it contribuates to the original topic or not.

[funkeh_renn]

I know moderators need alot of common sense to sort out things most of the time, but sometimes things can be a little too much on common sense and may make it seem inconsistent.

 

Surely the last post in this topic:

 

http://www.tdnforums.com/index.php?showtop...mp;#entry180029

 

 

Was adequate contribution?

 

Okay, I've done some intensive study on autism recently. I'm going to let everyone know that the mercury in the vaccinations are harmless. It is a certain type of mercury that is easily flushed out of the body. I mean, there are countries out there that only give vaccinations with mercury in them, and those countries have a lower autism rate than the United States. I believe autism is related to the amount of pollution in the environment, which may cause a mutation in a gene, causing autism. Apparently, they've even detected the gene with the "autism mutation." Many things can cause the mutation, such as the environment the mother is in.

 

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[Superfly]

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Thank you for your suggestion, moderators do take posts into account before closing a topic. I will double check to make sure all of our moderators are doing this. Your proposal for changing 14 days to 30 days will possibly be discussed at our next staff meeting, or among the moderators.

 

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