Bon Voyage dissatisfaction
bowrain:
Quote from: cwykes on 2008 March 26, 09:39:38
If you have more to say on an old topic, it makes sense to continue the old thread for two reasons:-
1. All the info about the topic stays in one place rather than being spread all over the board
2. Anyone who was interested in the subject first time round has tools to see there's something new there - "notify" (if it works) and "show new replies to your posts".
People who see the necromancy warning and still post without a good reason are just annoying. If you want to get draconian, can you fix it so that people with less than X posts, physically CAN'T re-open a closed thread?
Well, an old thread doesn't necessarily means closed. I believe nobody can reopen a closed thread except admins and mods.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: talysman on 2008 March 25, 17:22:46
Literally, it means divination by means of the dead (séance, ouija board,) but S&S stories of the '20s and '30s turned it into "raising the dead". There's also a little side-trip where some people thought the word was derived from the Latin word for "black", thus spawning the term "The Black Arts" or "Dark Arts", which pretty much covers anything unwholesome, especially magic that uses parts of dead people (like the hand of glory.)
My favorite classical-mancy is "Chronomancy", the art of divining the future by waiting to see what happens.
witch:
I'm awesome at that, plus I have 20/20 hindsight.
Ellatrue:
I just use the "new" button that pops up whenever there's a new post in the thread. If it drops off the front page, then it is dead to me.
I still think you can't expect people to read the FAQ. If you want people to care, then make it shorter and not an actual joke. If it isn't something that would be obvious to a stranger or someone new to the game, then we have no business expecting people to know it. Also with the lurking: pointless. People are either going to say retarded things, or they won't, and no amount of lurking will make someone less annoying.
The only point in lurking before posting is to try and "fit in." Fitting in is for tools. Baaaah!
talysman:
I thought the point was *not* to have an easy-to-find, easy-to-understand FAQ, so that you can point-and-laugh?
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