[Eagle of Fire]

First of all, I was under impression that thread was closed because of language. Apparantly that was not the reason. Sorry for that.

Did you read my custom rules? I think they are pretty straightforward and well explained by themselves and whenever I use them I link to the refering page. If you want more informations about this I'll be happy to continue this conversation.

Now, what about closing treads in Troubleshooting forum because they got bumped/resurected? Do we really need to see 100 posts with the same question, as bumping old ones would get that tread closed?

I close them so the offending user actually do it get the hint. If they don't, which never happened yet (and it's a good thing), I would need to personally warn the offending user then get other measures if he/she persist in doing so. I have no trouble asking for other admins for help, and spammers and troublemakers in the Troubleshooting forum been banned in the past. I administrate some forums myself (like for example the UD forum of The Abandoned), I know how easy it is to close access to the forum to a user.

[quote]Why then at the end of the week you don't close all treads one week or longer opened to avoid problems like this?[quote]
What I do here is free of charge. I don't get paid, I have absolutly no reward, I do it both for the sake of Abandonware (and this lovely site) and because I like to do it. However, this doesn't mean that I just like to get an overload of work I don't really need. If you were to pay me to do it, I'd be more than glad to do whatever you wish. Since it is not the case, I like to keep my amount of work here to a minimum if it is possible. Tracking and closing every threads which are older than one week of innactivity would be quite a unneeded workload.

In my opinion, using of old treads, instead of creating the new one is what makes troubleshooting area clean. Not closing treads.

My idea of clean threads is a thread which, if possible, the problem get resolved in one page. If we were to institute a new rule which force the users to always post in the same thread, we would end up with threads with incredible amount of pages like you can already see in many places on this board. Best instance of this is the Ufo: Ennemy unknown thread which is near the 150 pages if I'm not mistaken. Having threads so big would definitly lead to some users not wanting to read thru all the pages, and asking the same problems all over again indefinitly, increasing the thread lenght even more.

Having such threads is already not my idea of a clean thread, but what about those who actually help the users? Would they be more likely to always visit the same thread over and over, or would they skip it once in a while thinking they already solved the problem? I think the second case would happen at times, and this again go against the idea of having the problem resolved in the fastest amount of time than possible.

I made it clear when I took over the Troubleshooting section that I wanted one thread per user per problem to keep everything clean and simple. So far it always worked perfectly this way, and the only problem I may think about this system is that one day there will be too much activity on that subforum and that more threads will be created in one day than one page can hold. At that time we'll look into the problem and we might just do as you suggest, but for the moment there is really no reason to take that step.


Edit: someone have an idea of why my quotes are not working? :blink: