Possibly a new sub forum just below Announcements titled About the Forums. This subforum would include a lot of the stickied threads scattered around the other subforums including the hopefully revamped Guides Index. It could also contain a guide / suggestions / eitquette for new posters A link to or copy of the forum Rules. This could also be an area for the mods and Community Managers to post, discuss, or whatever they need to address the Forum Community.
Stickied threads should be reviewed regularly and updated as needed.
Forum Order: Announcements, About the Forums, Questions, Forge Hall, Guides, Proposals.
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A few years back some overenthusiastic mod started deleting and or moving very old threads around I think to the archived proposal sub forum. Please don;t do that any more! If there is some need to move old threads around, create an archive subforum in the appropriate forum, move them there and lock them. This is a treasure of history of the game that a few sicko pervs like me can enjoy,
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The Frequently Proposed Ideas thread should be maintained and labeled READ BEFORE POSTING.
In game mods should quit sending folk here to create Dnsl and Frequently Proposed Ideas and should include the mandate to read the READ BEFORE POSTING threads.
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The Guides Index is being updated, good job that, long overdue
Review all the Guides in the Guides forum. I'm not quite sure what can / should be done though. Maybe move to an archive Guides subforum?
Eliminate Pending Guides Subforum.
Create a Draft Guides subforum. When the author deems it ready move the Guide up to the Guides subforum.
Keep the Best Guides subforum but let's make it a Hall of Fame. Voting by the mods and posters much like voting on Proposals as to which Guides should be put there, Both current excellent Guides like UBERs and dontwannaname's Guides and some of the influential historic Guides could go there, as well as some of the Guides currently needing revamping in the Guides Index and now in Best Guides.
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Lock threads automatically after a set interval with no new posts (maybe a month?), so it isn't possible to necro long-dead threads from years ago.
Start by closing threads that should not get any reactions anymore. Lock threads that have not had a reaction in say two months.
While the occasional necro is a pain, it also gives the opportunity for newer posters to see older discussions. There is some entertainment, nostalgia and insight into the history of the game.
Just a thought. I know I'm swimming uphill here.
I guess I'm OK with older threads being locked, as long as the mods are willing to unlock upon reasonable request?
Also. some threads can be relevant although they can go a long time without posting. dontwannanames's and Glarg's Guides come to mind.