Just my Gripe. I don't want banned

[SweetFang]

Ok, I'm gonna risk offending the "Almighty Mods", because if I don't speak out I will feel like I've done nothing to change the world, save the baby seals, stop global warming and prove that the moon landing was faked.

I was on here last night, bored off my ass as usual, when I found a thread in the photography section called "Photo Editing Challenge". As soon as I saw the challenge photo, I had an idea, so I downloaded it and got to work. I'm pretty good in Photoshop and I love modifying photos.

Anyway, today I get:
Please don't post in threads with more than 2 months of inactivity.
LOCKED

How many people check the date of a post before responding???

But, that's not the problem. If you don't want people to respond to threads with 2 months of inactivity that is fine with me, but why dont the mods lock them at 2 months???? Move them to the archive!! It's great that we can look at archives and learn from the past, but having to check the date of every post on page 1 or 2 is messed up.

I worked over 2.5 hours on that photo edit and I expected other people to see it and comment on it. I expected to see their work too.

[Saint]

The date of the post is literally above the poster's name :P

I mean it'll be cool if the thread locks itself after 2 months or so in certain sections,but yeah,in the meantime you could just check the date by looking above the poster's username.

[Living For Love]

We don't lock them because the OP might post on them again after two months, and to be honest, it's not very difficult to just check the date of the original post before replying.

[ksdnfkfr]

It's easy to make that mistake, i've done it a few times. the "almighty mods" are just school kids like you and me who volunteer to moderate this forum with what little spare time they have. Don't see why their workload should be increased by locking each thread that's 2 months old. It could be the thread you posted in got locked because someone reported it, not because a mod was waiting to pounce on you. :P

As for the picture you worked on, could you start a new thread with it?

[DiamondsGirl]

Yeah I also think it'd be nice if threads got an automatic lock after 2 months of inactivity but then again it takes no effort at all to check the last reply's date.

[SweetFang]

:angry: Ok, Ive been in raging-bitch mode since Friday with no end in sight. I will try to be cool.

We don't lock them because the OP might post on them again after two months

Understandable but it makes little sense. Can I come back in a year or two and post to one of my original posts? That cant happen very often. However, I bet each of the mods have to take the time several times per day to lock a topic and tell the innocent new poster that they made a mistake. If it's been two months with no activity, I think the OP needs to create a new topic.

The date of the post is literally above the poster's name :P

Really? Where is the posters name? :ohmy:

Don't see why their workload should be increased by locking each thread that's 2 months old. :P

As for the picture you worked on, could you start a new thread with it?

Ezra, read what I said above. The Mods are spending more time locking and telling the innocent new poster that they made a mistake.

As for the picture, it should be in the photography topic as well as the original. I'll start a new thread once the OP's over two months have to do the same.

[NeuroTiger]

I want to see the picture...please, do make a new thread.

Well, almost all of us have been in such a situation. But we need to respect the mods...they are doing their task as asked ;)

[Living For Love]

Understandable but it makes little sense. Can I come back in a year or two and post to one of my original posts? That cant happen very often. However, I bet each of the mods have to take the time several times per day to lock a topic and tell the innocent new poster that they made a mistake. If it's been two months with no activity, I think the OP needs to create a new topic.

I don't think so. First, we only warn the user if he has been bumping threads a lot, continuously. If it's just one isolated case, I don't warn them. And yes, after a year or two, I guess you can post again on a thread you created before, if you want to update the information or add something relevant, as long as it's not the casual "bump" some people do. And locking threads takes like 15 seconds to do it, or not even that.

[DiamondsGirl]

Really? Where is the posters name? :ohmy:





it's the yellow bar that separates each reply. Right above the poster's name you can see the date and time it was posted. Surely you can decide whether it's an old thread or not judging from its last reply's date can you not?

[Elysium]

You are responsible for reading the rules. You are responsible for abiding by the rules. We, as staff, are responsible for enforcing the rules. I don't see why checking the date of a post is such an issue since it takes all of two seconds of your time or, furthermore, why it would anger you so that threads get locked for it.

I, for one, would love to see the photo you spent so much time on, so why not create your own thread? Nobody's stopping you from posting it, only from posting it in a thread that's outdated. We don't lock them at two months because, like Tiago said, the OP may decide to post in their own thread - which has happened on numerous occasions. For example, this (http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=197185) thread you posted in only hours ago. Also, just a correction: the only archive currently is for the Puberty101 forums because otherwise they'd be a mess of locks. No other forum presents quite as much of a problem.

Like Tiago said, locking a thread for bumping takes only seconds. None of us are actually all that busy, so stop worrying about how much time we're spending on this or that. Besides, we volunteer for this stuff. It's no burden to us.

[xXl0sth0peXx]

I understand your frustration, I really do. But everything that's been said above is true.

Every staff member is a volunteer, myself included and I don't think any of us would have the time/want to lock every single thread that was over 2 months old, or have to unlock threads that were locked because the OP wants to post again. You'd be surprised how much it does happen.

If I wanted to post in a thread I made in 2011, or Maverick from one in 2008, or whatever, there's nothing stopping us.. unless it's locked. I'd venture to say it'd be more trouble for us to unlock threads that the OP wanted to post in than to lock bumped threads. As Elysium said, it takes just a few seconds to lock one. She also made a good point, why not make the thread over again. You could even link the old one in your post, and then kinda 'remake' it. It's not under copyright or anything. And that you are responsible for reading the rules, and it says here (http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/faq.php?faq=rules#faq_behavior) that users cannot bump threads.

As for how many people actually check the date before posting? I don't know, but I know that I do, and it's a good habit to be in.

[SweetFang]

I should have known better than to even try. Sorry. I'll just keep my mouth shut from now on.

[ImCoolBeans]

I should have known better than to even try. Sorry. I'll just keep my mouth shut from now on.

That's not what anybody was saying, but ok

[Deiform]

honestly, a good idea would be to make a new thread and put a link in there to the old, outdated tread instead of posting in the old one