Escalated Clarify the Necroposting Rule.

[ItzEnd3r]

so this morning there was a little bit of a conflict involving this thread: https://www.cubecraft.net/threads/m...o-see-in-an-update.258531/page-2#post-1242433

and what is shows is that this rule needs to be clarified. There are a few issues,
1) Timezones, because of timezones for some people the gap between posts might be 20 days, and for others it could be 21.
2) The rule itself isn't very clear, should a thread be locked if there are 21 days between posts, or is that still allowed.
basically we need a lot of clarification because i have seen a lot of issues regarding this rule because its so vague.

 

[Keanu]

We're currently already discussing some things internally. :]

 

[wxzzrd]

good Keanu thnx

 

[Technosword]

Keanu already said it but I’ll say why I support it. I was part of the conversation when this happened and there was a lot of discussion about the thread. A simple resolution for this would to be to clarify this rule more so that this can’t happen again. I agree fully! +1

 

[Pineapple]

100% I feel awful about everything that's happened today and will try to only post ones that would be 100% (which I honestly thought it was 22 days but it turns out I can't count

 

[ItzEnd3r]

100% I feel awful about everything that's happened today and will try to only post ones that would be 100% (which I honestly thought it was 22 days but it turns out I can't count

as i said before, no hard feelings. If anything it showed that the rule needs to be clarified and ended up doing some good.

 

[Queen Ualala]

100% I feel awful about everything that's happened today and will try to only post ones that would be 100% (which I honestly thought it was 22 days but it turns out I can't count

ouch take a break you’re just a human too

 

[wxzzrd]

100% I feel awful about everything that's happened today and will try to only post ones that would be 100% (which I honestly thought it was 22 days but it turns out I can't count

Yeah it’s weird I looked at it and in California it’s 21 days and I was like waaaaa

 

[betty's oldies]

Yeah it’s weird I looked at it and in California it’s 21 days and I was like waaaaa

It got that bad that one of the threads I posted on got the same mark. Upon doing some homework on my own, I noticed that this was inconsistent with what Easteyy replied sometime (see #staff-help on CCG's Discord) last month with a similar case where the time between replies was only 20 days (thus it wasn't a necropost). I had to pull up a calculator to find the number of days between just to prove my case.

I even wrote that timezone does NOT influence the elapsed time between replies. I triple checked the days between in my local timezone, server timezone, and Australia timezone for the worst case. All three timezones pulled up 19-20 days, not 21+.

The rule should be rewritten so that it's older than 21 days, i.e. older than exactly 504 hours. There's also a feature that can warn users about necroposting, this version working for XenForo 2.X+ as this forums uses XenForo 2.X+. https://xenforo.com/community/resources/mmo-old-thread-warning.7735/

For reference, this was another thread that I posted in that got the false necropost warning. https://www.cubecraft.net/threads/who-are-the-best-players-ever-to-be-on-ccg.262463/#post-1228296

 

[ItzEnd3r]

bump

 

[wxzzrd]

bump

I think they should just make it so that it is 22 days

 

[betty's oldies]

I think they should just make it so that it is 22 days

Yup, and all they simply need to do is use the plugin I've referenced and it will automatically mark threads as old when their deadlines have passed, no need to manually calculate the days.

 

[ItzEnd3r]

bump

 

[wxzzrd]

bump

Knew it

 

[InkAsriel]

i never knew this rule until a staff told me not to, i think there should be something like a warning about necroposting and maybe even make it so its fine on the bigger posts. i've seen many great suggestions, but sadly from a long time ago, it would be nice to be able to reply to them without necroposting

 

[Katsia Stray]

I think that threads involved with the necroposting rule should either be automatically locked, or warned with a message saying "Hey! This thread may be influenced by our Necro-Posting Rule. Send anyway?"

 

[InkAsriel]

I think that threads involved with the necroposting rule should either be automatically locked, or warned with a message saying "Hey! This thread may be influenced by our Necro-Posting Rule. Send anyway?"

sounds like a good solution to me