Due to abuse of the activity feed I think it is necessary for a new rule:
Repeated bumping of blogs/games/news/etc which have not been commented on for over a week will result in a +1 warn unless there is sufficient reason for your comment.Possible acceptable reasons:A game has been updatedPosting a good amount of feedback on a game/example/etcAn update to an old conversation which is still relevant todayUnacceptable reasons:LolI remembered this and decided to bump it*stupid joke*etcThere will be an option added sometime soon which will allow you to comment on older stuff without bumping it on the activity feed.
I suppose you're right, Toast. But it's a bit unnerving when mods are already threatening to crack down on "necroposting" when it hasn't even become a problem yet.
It didn't become a problem because a lot of necroposting was deleted even before this rule.
Define "a lot", because I visit 64digits quite frequently and have only noticed an occasional necropost or two.
Either the necroposting only happens when I'm not around and gets deleted before my next visit, or your definition of "a lot of necroposting" is a little bit scary.But you do what you see fit. I'm not planning on doing a bunch of meaningless necroposting, so I'm not truly affected by this new rule. I just hope this trend of the site getting stricter doesn't worsen.I think the issue here is that we're more aware of necroposting.
Probably. It's your job to moderate the site, so I'd expect as much.
Still, I'd prefer to see new features to "fix" the necroposting problem, rather than new rules.For example, blogs which haven't been commented on for over 2 weeks probably aren't very relevant and should automatically be excluded from the feed. If it is relevant, it's probably only relevant to the blog's writer, thus it would be a nice touch if the activity feed continued to show your content to you, regardless of cutoffs for the rest of the users.And users should be able to define their own cutoffs for games, WIPs and examples based on last comment and/or last update.Here are my recommendations (whether or not they're possible is another question), something should appear on the feed if there is:
Though the activity feed was really a great addition, I still think the games are being very ignored. Older games are still games, and the creator should still receive feedback, and players should still be able to provide it. I still like going back and playing [INSERT GAME NAME HERE], but I can't provide any more feedback because nobody looks at it anymore.
But I'd suggest a "lock" feature for games that the creator no longer supports, has remade, or otherwise ignores.A lock feature is needed through-out, good idea.
Okay this is going to mostly be a repeat of stuff I've already said but:
@FCYWI am fixing necroposting, sometime tonight the database will finish some queries I've been doing and then I will enable the "do not show this comment on the feed" option which will be checked by default next to the Post button on older blogs/games. The way the activity feed is programmed, there is no way to have user specific stuff. So instead I am adding an option to re-order user pages and games by last comment. If a blog is necroposted which nobody cares about then mods will be able to remove it from the feed and/or lock it if necessary. At this point necroposting is probably less of an issue than pointless new blogs/comments. Also, I was online during most of the necroposting and deleted it within minutes.@JujuLocking will be implemented soon for blogs and games.@KilinI'm confused about what your first paragraph means in terms of the activity feed. Do you wany something changed?I like how KaBob is handling it. He's doing, or planning on doing, everything I want before I can say it. :D