Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150423195945/@comment-1738746-20150424063105

I'm not familiar with how forum moderation on Wikis go, I've worked on actual forums for around 10 years now, but shouldn't old topics be closed anyway by the mods to stop this grave-digging/necroposting from happening?

I share many similar opinions as Rim has already posted, particularly in the case of people posting requests for help and someone coming up with an answer way down the track. It's not only to help the original poster, but having the answer posted (better late than never) means who ever else has the same or similar problem and stumbles upon the thread will have an answer waiting for them.

The Rim of the Sky wrote:

A discussion could go on with 10 replies, but then when nobody responds for 30 days it is closed. Next thing you know, 2 weeks later another user goes ahead and starts the same topic since they can't reply to the old one. This is why I'm also remaining neutral on this. Forum moderation styles and techniques will always vary forum to forum- this generally isn't because of who admins the forum, but rather based on the type of post-traffic received on the forum. I don't watch the forums here often and I certainly don't mod them, but mods should look into what moderation style is more appropriate- closing threads after 30(? variable) days and risking a new-duplicate topic being created or leaving it open for longer but living with grave-digging or bumping. If grave-digging is a big issue on the forums here then yes, consider closing them after a shorter amount of time. But if duplicate topic creation is already an issue on the forum here then consider leaving the topics open and just live with the bumping/grave-digging, because closing the topics will throttle the activity into increased topic creation, which also raises the chance of people creating duplicate topics in the first place.