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May 24, 12:18 PM
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Given that there have been being cases of people mass-responding to more recent threads or necro-bumping threads with not much input to generate any substantial conversation from their bumping, I suggest using technical restrictions to prevent having the forums flooded every single time a few individuals seem to have too much free-time

For example, excluding Forum Games and Clubs, make it so people can only respond to a maximum of 5 threads per section within a single hour and can only respond to 2 threads a day in which the last response was longer than 3 months ago.
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May 24, 12:22 PM
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That would put forums in the grave. I notice the same usernames from mostly all forums. Most threads are kept alive through the few regulars we have.
May 24, 12:48 PM
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"Anti-mass-bumping suggestion"

.·°՞(¯□¯)՞°·why???

May 24, 1:44 PM
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rohan121 said:
That would put forums in the grave. I notice the same usernames from mostly all forums. Most threads are kept alive through the few regulars we have.
Not necessarily. If anything, meaningless mass-bumping by the very same people is what scares people away. There is also nothing against doing that kind of thing in Forum Games or in Clubs and also nothing against focusing on 5 threads per section in a single hour instead of like 10-20 or more with very little input and creative character-limit bypassing by putting a statement or a question in quotemarks. I'd rather have like 10 good threads to read a day than 50 threads in which the same kind of short response is given. You can see it as some form of slow mode to prevent abuse by some individuals who mostly bring up topics from the past to purposefully flood the forums or do it primarily with more recent topics to boost their post counters and ultimately as a form of protection measures for the thread creators and legitimate posters that their threads and/or postings don't get buried in a flood of other topics

Absurdo_N said:
.·°՞(¯□¯)՞°·why???
So we don't have like 7 Mars, 6 Sun, 3 Sunday and 2 Tsundere threads from the past all brought up by a single person in a single day any longer.
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May 24, 2:04 PM
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rohan121 said:
That would put forums in the grave. I notice the same usernames from mostly all forums. Most threads are kept alive through the few regulars we have.
Not necessarily. If anything, meaningless mass-bumping by the very same people is what scares people away. There is also nothing against doing that kind of thing in Forum Games or in Clubs and also nothing against focusing on 5 threads per section in a single hour instead of like 10-20 or more with very little input and creative character-limit bypassing by putting a statement or a question in quotemarks. I'd rather have like 10 good threads to read a day than 50 threads in which the same kind of short response is given. You can see it as some form of slow mode to prevent abuse by some individuals who mostly bring up topics from the past to purposefully flood the forums or do it primarily with more recent topics to boost their post counters and ultimately as a form of protection measures for the thread creators and legitimate posters that their threads and/or postings don't get buried in a flood of other topics

Absurdo_N said:
.·°՞(¯□¯)՞°·why???
So we don't have like 7 Mars, 6 Sun, 3 Sunday and 2 Tsundere threads from the past all brought up by a single person in a single day any longer.
@Noboru

But people love to talk bad or good about tsunderes.

May 24, 2:16 PM
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@Noboru

But people love to talk bad or good about tsunderes.
@Absurdo_N Then either create a new thread or focus on one single Tsundere thread and post something more substantial than a short one-liner with no regards to previous postings. Things have been so bad that people were even wondering: Is this some sort of psyop?
May 24, 2:20 PM
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@Absurdo_N Then either create a new thread or focus on one single Tsundere thread and post something more substantial than a short one-liner with no regards to previous postings. Things have been so bad that people were even wondering: Is this some sort of psyop?
@Noboru CD basically became an abortion board over the span of a few hours. What the hell drives a person to do this?
May 24, 2:23 PM
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@Noboru CD basically became an abortion board over the span of a few hours. What the hell drives a person to do this?
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It was wrong but so fun at the same time;_; why am I like this.·°՞(¯□¯)՞°·.

May 24, 2:25 PM
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@Absurdo_N Then either create a new thread or focus on one single Tsundere thread and post something more substantial than a short one-liner with no regards to previous postings. Things have been so bad that people were even wondering: Is this some sort of psyop?
@Noboru

It's just that at that time I resurrected controversial topics and that was... controversial.

May 24, 2:25 PM

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@Noboru CD basically became an abortion board over the span of a few hours. What the hell drives a person to do this?
@Daviljoe193 Which shouldn't be. It's one thing to have one subject about a specific topic at a time, but even for threads that would be still okay under current rules, there is simply no point in having the same type of short answer by the same person being seen in multiple threads
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I tend to bump old threads of mine now and then mainly from the suggestions board. It would be too difficult to moderate keeping track of who bumped a thread and when and the mods will just make this an excuse to lock more threads. The site is already focusing too much on petty things to moderate under arbitrary claims of often imaginary "controversy" while users harassing and threatening others go unnoticed.
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May 24, 6:32 PM

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sort function
There is a function to sort topics by "Newest Topic" or "Last Post". This might make annoyance lighter. Though it seems MAL doesn't remember the preference of the sort mode. It should be improved. (or it's just I don't know the way of the setting?)
It would be also better that "forum top page" has (or is influenced by) the sort mode as well.
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@Absurdo_N: I know that it was mostly controversial topics you had resurrected back then, but I don't know what kind of motivation you had, so it could have been very well a psyop for real.

@traed: It would be a technical limitation, not a moderation practice. Also, it would allow for bumping 2 threads per section per day and responding to 5 threads per section per hour (Forum Games and Clubs excluded), so it's more of a slow mode and mostly focused on preventing some spammers to flood the main forums with meaningless one-liners for the sake of their post counters and/or stirring up trouble. Of course, this is just a raw suggestion and could be improved like if there is a legitimate reason for bumping more threads in a given section per day, but how often does it happen that you want to bump like half the suggestion board in a day or want to respond to more than 5 threads in a section (Forum Games and Clubs excluded) in a single hour?

@kuroneko99: I know of the function, but I still prefer to sort by the "Last Post" because I prefer going through the latest postings. Sometimes, resurrecting a thread can incite interesting input from currently active people, but we certainly don't need 7 different Mars threads in a single day. The suggestion is more aimed so to give others also more of a chance to be present in the forums rather than seeing the same people push spam their responses
May 25, 3:52 AM

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@Absurdo_N: I know that it was mostly controversial topics you had resurrected back then, but I don't know what kind of motivation you had, so it could have been very well a psyop for real.

@traed: It would be a technical limitation, not a moderation practice. Also, it would allow for bumping 2 threads per section per day and responding to 5 threads per section per hour (Forum Games and Clubs excluded), so it's more of a slow mode and mostly focused on preventing some spammers to flood the main forums with meaningless one-liners for the sake of their post counters and/or stirring up trouble. Of course, this is just a raw suggestion and could be improved like if there is a legitimate reason for bumping more threads in a given section per day, but how often does it happen that you want to bump like half the suggestion board in a day or want to respond to more than 5 threads in a section (Forum Games and Clubs excluded) in a single hour?

@kuroneko99: I know of the function, but I still prefer to sort by the "Last Post" because I prefer going through the latest postings. Sometimes, resurrecting a thread can incite interesting input from currently active people, but we certainly don't need 7 different Mars threads in a single day. The suggestion is more aimed so to give others also more of a chance to be present in the forums rather than seeing the same people push spam their responses
@Noboru

They may be silly subjects, but people like to answer them. People liked to answer whether they would eat a dolphin full of mercury or marry a submissive 100-year-old man.

May 25, 7:54 AM

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@Noboru

They may be silly subjects, but people like to answer them. People liked to answer whether they would eat a dolphin full of mercury or marry a submissive 100-year-old man.
@Absurdo_N The suggestion wouldn't make it impossible to bump such a thread, but would rather bring fairness to everyone so that not a single person could bump all the threads they like, but would be restricted to only 2 threads in a given section (except Forum Games and Clubs). In the same way, it brings for a slow mode so that other people have a chance to have their message read and potentially interacted with rather than it being burried under the responses of some spam pushers
May 25, 7:58 AM

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@Absurdo_N The suggestion wouldn't make it impossible to bump such a thread, but would rather bring fairness to everyone so that not a single person could bump all the threads they like, but would be restricted to only 2 threads in a given section (except Forum Games and Clubs). In the same way, it brings for a slow mode so that other people have a chance to have their message read and potentially interacted with rather than it being burried under the responses of some spam pushers
@Noboru

I still don't understand this "fairness" part. Sorry.

May 25, 8:01 AM

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@Noboru

I still don't understand this "fairness" part. Sorry.
@Absurdo_N It means to restrict your bumping tendencies and limit yourself on 2 old threads in a section a day and people in general to post only in 5 different CD threads within a single hour

So we see less of that:

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@Absurdo_N It means to restrict your bumping tendencies and limit yourself on 2 old threads in a section a day and people in general to post only in 5 different CD threads within a single hour

So we see less of that:

@Noboru

Is this image aesthetically ugly or something? I still don't understand, sorry I still don't understand.

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@Noboru

Is this image aesthetically ugly or something? I still don't understand, sorry I still don't understand.
@Absurdo_N Don't play dumb, this is a clear example of undesirable practices such as flooding that would have led to a ban in other places.

Here you get an overview through the automatic A.I. response when typing it in Google


Now I'm not asking for stricter rules and better rule enforcing, but to have a technical limitation kinda akin to the slow mode channels in Discord so not a single person can spam push their own responses (aside from Clubs and Forums Games) any longer in the way that's been being done here
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@Absurdo_N Don't play dumb, this is a clear example of undesirable practices such as flooding that would have led to a ban in other places.

Here you get an overview through the automatic A.I. response when typing it in Google


Now I'm not asking for stricter rules and better rule enforcing, but to have a technical limitation kinda akin to the slow mode channels in Discord so not a single person can spam push their own responses (aside from Clubs and Forums Games) any longer in the way that's been being done here
@Noboru

So I can't reply to topics that I find interesting because it will be considered spam? What a confusing rule.

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@Noboru

So I can't reply to topics that I find interesting because it will be considered spam? What a confusing rule.
@Absurdo_N You don't need to push 7 different Mars threads from the past in a single day with a similar answer and you certainly don't need to post in ~15-20 different CD threads in the time-frame of 1-2h
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@Absurdo_N You don't need to push 7 different Mars threads from the past in a single day with a similar answer and you certainly don't need to post in ~15-20 different CD threads in the time-frame of 1-2h
@Noboru

I didn't need to, but I found it fun to respond and read the comments already published, it's also cool to look for posts from users who are still active today like @traed .

May 25, 10:41 AM

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I think maybe double the number from 5 threads to 10 and 2 older threads to 4. I think the forums would become way too slow otherwise. Maybe also merge threads together if they have similar enough topics and make sense to fit in one thread.

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Absurdo_N said:
I didn't need to, but I found it fun to respond and read the comments already published, it's also cool to look for posts from users who are still active today like @traed .
I didn't find it fun to have like half of the section flooded with your responses. And you can look for past postings of still active users without bumping a thread

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I think maybe double the number from 5 threads to 10 and 2 older threads to 4. I think the forums would become way too slow otherwise. Maybe also merge threads together if they have similar enough topics and make sense to fit in one thread.
10 threads within an hour would be like 1/5 of the whole page on a desktop view and half the page on mobile. There are usually hardly any people having elaborate enough postings for more than 5 different threads within a given forums section such as AD or CD in a single hour. Once they've posted in a thread, there would be no technical limits how much they could respond to the same topic unless it would be blatant abuse/spam.
As for merging, sure that could be introduced as well, but it would only mitigate the problem and would require more active moderation as opposed to having a technically enforced slow mode
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@Absurdo_N: I know that it was mostly controversial topics you had resurrected back then, but I don't know what kind of motivation you had, so it could have been very well a psyop for real.

@traed: It would be a technical limitation, not a moderation practice. Also, it would allow for bumping 2 threads per section per day and responding to 5 threads per section per hour (Forum Games and Clubs excluded), so it's more of a slow mode and mostly focused on preventing some spammers to flood the main forums with meaningless one-liners for the sake of their post counters and/or stirring up trouble. Of course, this is just a raw suggestion and could be improved like if there is a legitimate reason for bumping more threads in a given section per day, but how often does it happen that you want to bump like half the suggestion board in a day or want to respond to more than 5 threads in a section (Forum Games and Clubs excluded) in a single hour?

@kuroneko99: I know of the function, but I still prefer to sort by the "Last Post" because I prefer going through the latest postings. Sometimes, resurrecting a thread can incite interesting input from currently active people, but we certainly don't need 7 different Mars threads in a single day. The suggestion is more aimed so to give others also more of a chance to be present in the forums rather than seeing the same people push spam their responses
@Noboru
Oh so you mean a rate limit. The current rate limit is pretty annoying to me sometimes at least it is only a few seconds though. I think it could potentially kill off the forum even if it goes too far or is improperly implemented where it will also effect episode / chapter discussions or posting one post per one board but hitting all the boards. I can think pretty rappidly sometimes so I occasionally give lengthy responses to multiple threads in a short time period or someimes only short things are all that can be said. I guess it would be fine if it only applied to bumping a certain number of threads that are years old but MAL has a timing issue where posts get wrong dates listed sometimes so I can see how this might lock out all threads some days. .
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May 25, 2:43 PM

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Oh so you mean a rate limit. The current rate limit is pretty annoying to me sometimes at least it is only a few seconds though. I think it could potentially kill off the forum even if it goes too far or is improperly implemented where it will also effect episode / chapter discussions or posting one post per one board but hitting all the boards. I can think pretty rappidly sometimes so I occasionally give lengthy responses to multiple threads in a short time period or someimes only short things are all that can be said. I guess it would be fine if it only applied to bumping a certain number of threads that are years old but MAL has a timing issue where posts get wrong dates listed sometimes so I can see how this might lock out all threads some days. .
@traed It's also a safety meassures to prevent too much load. Of course, there can be other legitimate sections in which people want to talk about different episodes watching or chapter reading, so I would also exclude those sections. Yes, there is a risk that it wouldn't be properly implemented but it's still not a reason not to try it.
I don't see how this might lock out all threads and I haven't seen such a thing such a wrong date listed on desktop version. We're not using the faulty displayed "last edited" dates on mobile here, but the actual database dates of the creation time of the posting
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An automatic thread lock after ___years exceptions of Games, Clubs and Sticky's would make more sense, be less convoluted and require way less coding.
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An automatic thread lock after ___years exceptions of Games, Clubs and Sticky's would make more sense, be less convoluted and require way less coding.
@SuperAdventure
That's lame. Some threads stay active for years.
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May 25, 5:56 PM

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That's lame. Some threads stay active for years.
@traed It's done on other sites Ive used.
Replying to a twelve year old thread that's been dead for seven is what's lame.
Firstly, many most users on it are inactive. The original poster will start getting email notifications from something they posted online in 2013.
A standard rule would be that after ___years you just start a new thread. the same question can be asked but it's at least current.
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@traed It's done on other sites Ive used.
Replying to a twelve year old thread that's been dead for seven is what's lame.
Firstly, many most users on it are inactive. The original poster will start getting email notifications from something they posted online in 2013.
A standard rule would be that after ___years you just start a new thread. the same question can be asked but it's at least current.
@SuperAdventure
By then their email is probably shut down so it doesnt matter.
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An automatic thread lock after ___years exceptions of Games, Clubs and Sticky's would make more sense, be less convoluted and require way less coding.
@SuperAdventure That would be a bit too invasive especially for people who have taken more care of their threads and don't really want to invent the wheel anew if they want to do an update to their own thread or are looking for current opinions. But even provided your suggestion comes true at least for the threads that are nowadays too controversial to talk about, it alone wouldn't prevent flooding of current threads. Perhaps, one can include an option in which the bumper of old threads needs approval first at some point (either by mods or by the thread creator) and the same if people try to post in too many topics in a section within a very short time frame (except for the series/chapter discussion threads, the Forum Games and the Clubs)
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@SuperAdventure That would be a bit too invasive especially for people who have taken more care of their threads and don't really want to invent the wheel anew if they want to do an update to their own thread or are looking for current opinions. But even provided your suggestion comes true at least for the threads that are nowadays too controversial to talk about, it alone wouldn't prevent flooding of current threads. Perhaps, one can include an option in which the bumper of old threads needs approval first at some point (either by mods or by the thread creator) and the same if people try to post in too many topics in a section within a very short time frame (except for the series/chapter discussion threads, the Forum Games and the Clubs)
@Noboru Like I said I have been on forums where thread life was limited before and it worked well. Yep it means starting new threads, but at least the conversation is always fresh, and you're sure to be replying to someone who is still active on the site, not some long dead thread.
A post-limit wouldn't work here because if you look at the stats the posting traffic isn't high enough. A handful of very bored unemployed active users keep the forum alive.
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@Noboru Like I said I have been on forums where thread life was limited before and it worked well. Yep it means starting new threads, but at least the conversation is always fresh, and you're sure to be replying to someone who is still active on the site, not some long dead thread.
A post-limit wouldn't work here because if you look at the stats the posting traffic isn't high enough. A handful of very bored unemployed active users keep the forum alive.
@SuperAdventure You don't necessarily have to start new threads when there is a good one available. Also, with that logic, people who had responded once more recently could very well become inactive afterwards as well. There is no guarantee they would be active.
What would count as high enough posting traffic? Imho, the boards are pretty active enough to be a time-waster just to read/skim through the responses, unless you really have nothing else to do and spend every free minute here on the forums. Yes, but the point is to not over-do it by flooding the forums with only specific few individuals' postings, but rather to give others the chance to be also seen, read and interacted with. That's why it would be a time-limit or alternatively: a matter of approval for newer postings in a given section (with a few exceptions)
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@SuperAdventure You don't necessarily have to start new threads when there is a good one available. Also, with that logic, people who had responded once more recently could very well become inactive afterwards as well. There is no guarantee they would be active.
What would count as high enough posting traffic? Imho, the boards are pretty active enough to be a time-waster just to read/skim through the responses, unless you really have nothing else to do and spend every free minute here on the forums. Yes, but the point is to not over-do it by flooding the forums with only specific few individuals' postings, but rather to give others the chance to be also seen, read and interacted with. That's why it would be a time-limit or alternatively: a matter of approval for newer postings in a given section (with a few exceptions)
@Noboru I don't know what high enough would be, but what we have is not high enough for posting limits. Starting new threads is something that already happens on its own, have you not noticed how the same questions on Anime Discussion get asked over and over. A year old thread is legitimate, but once replies have stopped for more than 1 year, it should just be locked and deleted. New discussions will happen anyway, nobody will care.
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@Noboru I don't know what high enough would be, but what we have is not high enough for posting limits. Starting new threads is something that already happens on its own, have you not noticed how the same questions on Anime Discussion get asked over and over. A year old thread is legitimate, but once replies have stopped for more than 1 year, it should just be locked and deleted. New discussions will happen anyway, nobody will care.
@SuperAdventure I disagree. There is plenty of activity and people could still post additional 5 postings in other threads after an hour and/or if they would get approved under my suggestion. This would not affect threads people would have already posted in, it just puts a limit on how many threads within a section one could respond at a given time so we don't see sections in CD or AD with the same name(s) as much
And I completely disagree with locking or even deleting threads just for being old
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@Noboru Your suggestions would only punish normal posters. The regular posters know who the necrobumpers are, the non-regular posters know who the necrobumpers are, the community mods know who the necrobumpers are. Just handle the problem. Don't invent new rules that punishes people who has nothing to do with it
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I don't see much of a problem with necroing, because everyone has the choice to not open threads from the past if they don't want to engage in them.
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NS2D said:
Your suggestions would only punish normal posters. The regular posters know who the necrobumpers are, the non-regular posters know who the necrobumpers are, the community mods know who the necrobumpers are. Just handle the problem. Don't invent new rules that punishes people who has nothing to do with it
No it wouldn't, it would only limit those who would behave unfairly. Instead of a rule, it would be a technical limitation that would prevent or hinder people from going on senseless posting sprees in a short time for the sake of their posting count or because they want to push certain topics. This would much rather force people to focus on a few threads within an hour and engage with others if they want more postings in the normal forums rather than just posting one-liners on a multitude on threads in their favorite section(s)

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I don't see much of a problem with necroing, because everyone has the choice to not open threads from the past if they don't want to engage in them.
I don't have any issues with necroing either, as long as people don't overdo it and necro like 10-20 threads a day with similar content
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I don't have any issues with necroing either, as long as people don't overdo it and necro like 10-20 threads a day with similar content

Fair enough, but is it really a daily occurrence to this extent, and are there enough users doing it?
It would probably suffice if a mod warned Absurdo_N for excessive necroing, problem solved.
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Noboru said:
I don't have any issues with necroing either, as long as people don't overdo it and necro like 10-20 threads a day with similar content

Fair enough, but is it really a daily occurrence to this extent, and are there enough users doing it?
It would probably suffice if a mod warned Absurdo_N for excessive necroing, problem solved.
@Zarutaku It's not a daily occurence and I don't really like if people got punished for it which is why I've been making this alternative suggestion that would put a restriction in general on the act of mass-bumping in a short time instead of reporting people for doing those things, regardless of whether it happens with mass-necroing or just with mass-posting in different threads
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@Absurdo_N You don't need to push 7 different Mars threads from the past in a single day with a similar answer and you certainly don't need to post in ~15-20 different CD threads in the time-frame of 1-2h
@Noboru We don't have to, but the thing is that there's this thing called free will, and posting in the forums is what this site is intended for. So if someone wants to post replies to old forum posts, then so be it. It's better than having the old posts locked and we have to create the same post over and over again because of the large gap in responses. And if we slow down the forum response rate, it would make MAL unusable and even more people would switch over to Discord groups - an issue that MAL has been facing for years since clubs are virtually dead.
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@Noboru We don't have to, but the thing is that there's this thing called free will, and posting in the forums is what this site is intended for. So if someone wants to post replies to old forum posts, then so be it. It's better than having the old posts locked and we have to create the same post over and over again because of the large gap in responses. And if we slow down the forum response rate, it would make MAL unusable and even more people would switch over to Discord groups - an issue that MAL has been facing for years since clubs are virtually dead.
@_cjessop19_ It's questionable how much of a free will people have, but aside from that, there are usually restrictions aimed at making this place a more pleasant experience for everyone. I'm also not against necroposting at all, I'm just against the massive amount of it at once. Nope, it wouldn't necessarily slow down forum rate; if anything then the mass-bumps happen when the activity already goes down. This is likely because some people like to have their username seen often on the pages. What increases the forum response rate is engagement and this does not really happen if people just spam out one-liners for the sake of having a thread pushed, but rather if they respond to previous postings.
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Bump because it's been happening again on the forums with around 33 out of 50 threads on the first page of CD being necro-bumped in a short time-frame by mostly the same person again:



It's also happening by another person in the AD board btw.
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I think the auto locking of old threads as SuperAdventure is probably the easiest way around this problem. If a topic is so interesting and fun then said user can create their own thread. There is no need to resurrect a new thread nevermind multiple. Ignoring the necro aspect of things I don't understand the rationale why you would need to resurrect multple threads of a similar topic. Posting once is enough.
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I like this suggestion. I too have noticed that users have been bumping threads whose questions have already been thoroughly answered, and the user doesn't even add anything new.
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As a "gentle suggestion" not to do it.
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monsta666 said:
I think the auto locking of old threads as SuperAdventure is probably the easiest way around this problem. If a topic is so interesting and fun then said user can create their own thread. There is no need to resurrect a new thread nevermind multiple. Ignoring the necro aspect of things I don't understand the rationale why you would need to resurrect multple threads of a similar topic. Posting once is enough.

Kind of goes against the spirit of forums to just arbitrarily set a lock date forcing a reposting of the thread and copy and pasting replies or links to them. Forums weren't designed to be ephemeral they are meant for people to communicate beyond space and time.

letterling said:
I like this suggestion. I too have noticed that users have been bumping threads whose questions have already been thoroughly answered, and the user doesn't even add anything new.

It's currently just Absurdo_N and only very recently lol It s not something that happens very often in any meaningful scale. It is mild inconvenience at worst when you have to go to page 2
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  • As necro bump is not to do with massive posts issue, it should be separated from the topic.
  • As for the quality of posts, it's uncontrollable (without the use of future AI).
    Though karma/reputation system seemed a measure, it didn't work as we expected (as you can see in Amazon).
  • As for the frequency of posts of a user, it's controllable. But heavy users don't like the idea.
  • As for the frequency of total posts, it's uncontrollable. (I'm rather interested in this.) In fact and in general, we can't handle too many posters/posts even if they are good posts, as you can see popular Youtube videos. (It sometimes happens in episode threads for popular anime titles in MAL). There should be proper size of local community and the frequency of posts, though it would be uncontrollable (without making private clubs). Opinion summarization by AI may be useful.
so, probable solution would be compromised post frequency control like the one OP presented. (In fact, primitive one is already introduced; 15 seconds interval for post, 5 minutes interval for thread making.) Though some adjustment may be needed (and it may damage the desired effect).
or improved ignore function:
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2055400&id=67969113
or some other ways. For example, if you want to reject monopoly of a board, the system prohibits posts of a user by checking the board status.
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@monsta666: to add what mentioned that threads are meant to be time-less, I'm not against the act of necro-bumping at all, I'm against the flooding of threads in general, regardless of whether they are more recent or older. I do agree that resurrecting multiple threads of a similar topic is not a good thing, which is why I wish for it to be restricted so users can only have a limited amount of old threads from a given section they can reply to in a day and a limited amount of recent threads they can reply to within an hour

@letterling: Thanks for supporting it and yes, such things happen often, but the option can still stay as long as there will be a slow mode in which people cannot flood the forums in the way that is currently possible

@Daviljoe193: If someone has something of value to add to my older threads, I welcome the necroing.

@traed: it's not just him, there is another one in AD

@kuroneko99: yes, we do have some heavy users who don't like any restrictions in their posting behavior. Flooding should not be rewarded, but rather interacting with others and thus getting more of your post count by actually writing to other people as opposed to getting it by posting meaningless one-liners in as many threads as possible. An improved ignore function may only make the problem invisible but won't tackle it. Besides, you could be missing legitimate and interesting postings that follow afterwards
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mfw 1 year later Absurdo just bumps this one too 8)
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