[Solved]necroposting

[Marty]

But you can't say "common sense" etc etc when everyone has different interpretations.

Common sense is about what can be reasonably expected of nearly all people. It's a perfect way to describe this "rule" and just about every rule with ambiguity on the servers. Things in life aren't as black and white as people hope; every circumstance of necroposting can't be detailed, there's simply too many. Yes, a bit of common sense is required when posting on any old thread, you should really be asking yourself the questions on reply 2.

There's many examples on these forums, in my Aviation thread - Ivan Tempski posted in it despite no post being made for 2 years, yet it passes without issue because it brought fresh discussion. Plenty of suggestion threads. On these forums the main areas where necroposting comes into play would be like Help & Support, Newcomers, Off-Topic etc.

It's worth bearing in mind that the forum moderators don't go around warning people for posting in a thread that's two months old, hell even a year old. They use their brains themselves, asking the very same questions you should be when posting. It's simply not necessary to make a rule detailing precisely a cut off point - it doesn't work like that.

Your right a cut off point in a rule would not make sense. However, no rule at all, for example there was simple nothing mentioned about Necroposting, I myself was aware of the rule however many others may not have been aware of it, thus it being wrong and immoral to actually punish someone for something that is not widely known, or is not actually made reference to throughout the rules.

If you follow me ?

I'm not advocating necroposting, it's true it's pointless however admins have done it to old newcomers post, hell even Soul done it if these things happen it leads players and members to believe that it is fine as they have seen senior members perform these actions without penalty and have seen nothing stating you cannot do it.