Quote from: Lauda on July 01, 2017, 05:09:05 PM

Quote from: deisik on July 01, 2017, 05:07:50 PM

You may try to shift your stance as much as you please, but do it elsewhere

People are not allowed to change their stance on an on-going discussion? Please tell me more. Roll Eyes

They are certainly allowed, but they risk not being taken seriously if they flip-flop a bit too often

Quote from: Lauda on July 01, 2017, 05:05:05 PM

Quote from: deisik on June 29, 2017, 07:38:45 AM

So my proposal to the forum administration is to disable deletion of old threads (say, older than a few days) by moderators unless given explicit consent by Theymos. Really, if the thread didn't get deleted at once (within a few days), it pretty much means that it is worth staying here, while deleting an old thread feels like a spit in the face of the posters

This proposal is one of the worst that I've seen so far. This will never work (unless theymos promotes a few more admins that actually respond to all sensible PMs), nor is there a reason to do so

As to me, your proposal to introduce the "banned" rank is simply incomparable

In respect to the amount of devastation and damage that it would have caused and made if it had been accepted. As I told, I don't see any reason in deleting old threads apart from a rogue moderator starting a vendetta against a certain user. To avoid this, old threads should get locked after they remain inactive for a specified amount of time. As I also mentioned, I have seen users punished just for raising a necrothread (namely, all the new posts to this thread got deleted and these posts were no spam by any means). Locking such threads after some expire period would effectively prevent this (if necroraising is not allowed)

Quote from: Lauda on July 01, 2017, 05:05:05 PM

Ouch. My post count tanked by ~1000 due to this?

Enjoy the pain as they would say. It's not a big deal anyway, right? After all, "the forum doesn't owe you a living"