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#1 User is offline   Kuddy 

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Post icon  Posted 14 October 2003 - 03:23 PM

Okay people, this is something we seriously need to discuss, as it's been irritating myself and other users to hell and back lately. Basically this message is directed towards two groups: the people who wind up posting in topics that have been idle for a while, and those that feel it's right to constantly nag and bitch at these people for reviving topics.

For those who have been reviving topics, I think I'll lay down a bit of topic etiquette for you. If a topic hasn't been replied to in a week, then it's best if your post contributes something useful to the discussion and isn't idle chitchat. (ie. "Damn, I missed my chance to join this group. Oh well.") On the other hand, if it's been idle for three weeks or more, then you had better have a damn good reason for bringing it back up. If not, I'm just going to lock it. PLEASE check the date of the last reply before contributing your two cents. I can't stress this enough!

And for the ones that think they're suddenly figures of authority and can boss the people above around just because they've been here longer (you know who you are)... if you're thinking of posting that kind of stuff, take my advice and don't. You're not moderators, and you're just as annoying as the people you're whining at, if not moreso. It's best that you leave the discipline to us.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled forum business.
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Posted 14 October 2003 - 05:37 PM

Hear hear.

... I'm not post count farming. =(

Let me make the point that posting "OMG DEAD TOPIC REVIVAL YOULL BURN IN HELL FOREVER" not only doesn't help anything, but you're also reviving it just as much as they are. Unless you can LOCK the topic then you're not doing anything, so leave it alone.

However, if decent conversation is sparked again in the topic and you have something to say, you'd may as well add to it. If it turns out to be a meaningful topic again then we don't have any problem with it. Just think before messing with these... We'll try to specifically comment when we think that topics have become "revalidated."

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Posted 15 October 2003 - 12:51 AM

I AGREE
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Posted 15 October 2003 - 04:25 AM

There must be some few exeptions, even it it?s a month old, and the user must sell his/her soul to Satan!

Edit: Btw... I?ll post in this topic again in half a year... ...maybe not...

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Posted 15 October 2003 - 04:45 AM

Notices aren't generally replied to...

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Posted 15 October 2003 - 12:03 PM

I think this should be locked ;)
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Posted 15 October 2003 - 04:41 PM

well then i'd better reply before it is!

i agree with both points made. topic revival is annoying, as is yelling at topic revivers.
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Post icon  Posted 15 October 2003 - 09:28 PM

Pyro1588, on Oct 15 2003, 11:41 AM, said:

well then i'd better reply before it is!

i agree with both points made. topic revival is annoying, as is yelling at topic revivers.

So is replying to a post simply restating what the original post said.
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Posted 15 October 2003 - 09:32 PM

HELLO FRIENDS!
EVERYBODY LOVES THIS
EVERYBODY NEEDS THIS
I BELIEVE IT IS TIME FOR MORE STUPIDITY!
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Posted 15 October 2003 - 10:01 PM

WHY HELLO GOD OF STUPIDITY!

By the way, listen to them guys, this is why I don't reply to any dead topics that haven't been revived. It's like contributing to the problem. Let them take care of it.
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Posted 16 October 2003 - 12:23 AM

What about a thread like my art thread? It'd be kinda silly to make a new thread for something that I already have a thread for and they'd both be at the top anyway.
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Posted 16 October 2003 - 03:03 AM

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Posted 16 October 2003 - 03:18 AM

lsopht, on Oct 15 2003, 07:23 PM, said:

What about a thread like my art thread? It'd be kinda silly to make a new thread for something that I already have a thread for and they'd both be at the top anyway.

In the case of personal threads in Creation Corner, journal threads and the like then we're pretty lenient on dead topic revival. A game project is dead only when the worker(s) officially prepare a eulogy.

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Posted 28 August 2006 - 05:41 AM

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Posted 28 August 2006 - 05:44 AM

You think you're funny...
Blaugh!
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Posted 28 August 2006 - 05:47 AM

Well, kind of, yeah. I revived the dead topic revival thread with a picture of a zombie! The only thing that could make it more ironic would be if I were an actual zombie. Unfortunately I failed Voodoo 101, so.
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Posted 28 August 2006 - 05:50 AM

wassup


Topic revival is never funny.
Unless I post in it.

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Posted 28 August 2006 - 05:59 AM

Except you're not a zombie, you're a zombie's guts. That's not ironic, that's just gross.
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Posted 28 August 2006 - 06:01 AM

Damnit, I had my eyes on this thread! I was going to wait until october 16 to do it though (three years, you know). But then again I didn't count on being made a mod--since I'm one now so it wouldn't look that great if I did it =p.
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Posted 28 August 2006 - 06:38 AM

OMG TOPIC REVIVAL YOU WILL ALL BURN IN HELL
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Posted 28 August 2006 - 06:46 AM

PhoenixUltima said:

Except you're not a zombie, you're a zombie's guts. That's not ironic, that's just gross.


Well I'm laughing. ;)
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Posted 28 August 2006 - 06:49 AM

I revived an old topic once, i regret it now, i got on parole for it i think.
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Post icon  Posted 28 August 2006 - 07:27 AM

You have to admit that the "revive a 3-year old post" thing IS funny. Not "ha-ha" funny, not even "crack a smile" funny. Just LOLOLOL.
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Posted 28 August 2006 - 07:32 AM

Maxim, on Aug 28 2006, 12:27 AM, said:

You have to admit that the "revive a 3-year old post" thing IS funny. Not "ha-ha" funny, not even "crack a smile" funny. Just LOLOLOL.

Yeah, well, after having such a thing happen a few times at other places, I don't think it's that amusing anymore.
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Posted 28 August 2006 - 08:10 AM

Fighter_Phil, on Aug 28 2006, 04:49 PM, said:

I revived an old topic once, i regret it now, i got on parole for it i think.

Actually you got paroled for spamming/trolling under fake nickname(s). There's a difference =p
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Posted 28 August 2006 - 10:01 AM

Maxim, on Aug 28 2006, 02:27 AM, said:

You have to admit that the "revive a 3-year old post" thing IS funny. Not "ha-ha" funny, not even "crack a smile" funny. Just LOLOLOL.

Probably would have been more amusing if, like Lancer said, it was done on October 16th. Also - why hasn't Kuddy locked this yet? ;)
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Posted 28 August 2006 - 11:58 AM

Thread necromancy is EVIL, you are creating MONSTROSITIES. Repent!

Heh, I remember when this thread was posted. I don't think anyone's actually been more then formally warned for thread revival.
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