Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm seeing a lot of the forum griefers who apparently like to proclaim other posters' idea posts are redundant.

A few of these are indeed legitimate, but many of these I find questionable calls given that the ideas may be similar yet are different enough to warrant their own thread. Ideas that should be discussed separately with the OP, rather than a new post in an existing thread which hijacks that OP's thread. In some situations discussing a related idea in someone elses thread makes sense, in others it does not. Also ideas posted and buried weeks ago ought not be taken into consideration as a redundant thread.

In any case, I've noticed ISD almost reflexively closes these threads by the simple report of certain forum posters who not only like to proclaim their reporting (a violation of rule #12 I should think)* but who are easily identifiable as forum griefers, and therefore should have their reporting actions questioned.

Therefore, I would like to make a suggestion that any closures of threads due to alleged redundancy have a LINK posted in the ISD's closure post, to whatever related thread it is claimed to be redundant with. Ideally for the ISD someone in the thread (presumably the reporter) will have "respectfully" directed the OP to that redundant thread and provided the link in their report to ISD so they can link to it in their closure. If not, then if the ISD cannot identify the redundant thread him or herself, it ought not be closed.

Thanks.

* In my view, proclamations of 'reporting' is a pre-emptive violation of Forum Rule #12


If someone claims they are reporting a thread which is then locked by an ISD, I can assure you there is some veiled chest thumping and "in your face sucka' " going on there from the Reporter toward the Reportee. This can lead to exactly the same sort of thing that Rule #12 is established to prevent.

I have to disagree. Someone who necros a thread is likely to get as much grief, if not more, than re-posting an idea that was discussed weeks ago, which they may have themselves also considered but have their own input in regard to.

Also this is not a violation of Rule #12 because it's not related to any specific action on any specific post, but is referring in general to closures and suggesting an idea (which this forum is for) for said actions in general.

Better a necro'd thread where points don't have to be repeated and may be addressed without having to wait for people to do your brainstorming. Also, I'd rather give credit where it is due, to original ideas from the original poster.

Good question. That thread probably ought not to have been closed.

As to your other question, I suppose I'm speaking from experience of other gaming forums where not only do some people get agitated from necroing old threads, but it can even be a rule violation (which never made sense since if that were the rule then why aren't old threads automatically closed.)

Still, in some cases an old thread my be many pages long, to which the OP for the reposted idea may not want to sift through to see if their idea is fleshed out and questions addressed in that particular thread,. And neither would those who may also be new to the discussion and seeing the idea for the first time. I'm thinking for example of various WiS related ideas, to which there are MANY different ideas for. These don't all belong in a single thread, and in an old WiS thread with dozens of pages one should not have to wade through that to see if their specific aspect to that idea was brought up.

We will usually provide you with something to type into the search line...

"Yay another afk cloaking thread!" or soemthing to that effect...

For everyone who read that thread, we noticed the thread was in fact, not closed for redundancy, but because it was a discussion of forum moderation, which is another rule plainly stated is a no-no.