Okay come on now. Let’s use some common sense here.
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> So I noticed that a couple of old threads were being revived and then closed because a moderator didn’t like that.
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> At first I didn’t pay any attention to it, but then I got curious, so I looked into the Halo Waypoint guidelines and rules.
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> Here’s a description of the rules and guidelines that I found:
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> > Be constructive - Post your comments, opinions, and ideas in a constructive and respectful way. <mark>Duplicate threads</mark>, off-topic posts, clickbait or misleading titles, memes, crude rants, low-effort complaints, and similar posts or threads are not allowed.
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> The reason I post this is because I would like to know what the hell is going on here?
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> According to these rules/guidelines we can’t write duplicate threads “and similar posts or threads are not allowed,” so what exactly are we supposed to do if moderators keep on closing these threads because we are “reviving” old posts, but at the same time the rules here clearly state that we can NOT post similar or duplicate threads?
This is more geared towards the people who look at the front page of a section, see 86 threads on X topic, and yet make 4 new ones on the SAME topic. Or they post the same topic in every section. We lock redundant threads and redirect them. Or we lock threads that are brought back because if a thread hasn’t been posted in since 2012, it does not need to come back now. A good portion of the userbase wasn’t even around then so the people engaging in the original discussion aren’t going to want to jump back into an old discussion.
> I’m so confused here. Wouldn’t the forums be a lot more organized and cleaner if moderators stopped closing these posts?
Not really, no. Instead you’ll have people posting in whatever threads from whenever they want with no care as to the current topic, date, or state of games. This is literally part of why there are mods. It’s up to us to keep things clean/organized. What you’re suggesting would simply result in mass chaos of people posting whatever they want when/where they want.
How exactly is it organized if there’s nothing but 16 sprint threads in the Halo 5 section? 4 from today, 8 from last week, and 4 from the past 4 years? How does that help anything?
> Did the ruling change?
Nope.
> Can we please get our ish together here, please!
Our “ish” is together just fine. And you could have asked this in a better tone because the way this line in particular reads isn’t very constructive or helpful. It comes across as you implying that we don’t know or understand our own rules when that’s quite simply inaccurate.
There’s wiggle room in the rules on purpose. We’re not going to spell out literally everything in black and white because that ties our hands and boxes us in. Wiggle room is good. It allows us the flexibility to just lock threads when they get resurrected and say, “Hey this is old. There are new ones you can use.” or “Hey this is old, why don’t you modernize the idea if you really want to discuss it.”
