I think this
is a better place to discuss a lowering of the cap.
Looking through the morgue, it appears an expiry bot
was once around.
edited 24th Mar '12 11:18:39 AM by lu127
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - FighteerThey are archived in the morgue, but rather randomly spread across pages, so we have to check them to see if they were locked by the bot and not by the mods.
"If you aren't him, then you apparently got your brain from the same discount retailer, so..." - FighteerWell, I have noticed that holler responses have been strangely selective lately.
That being said, I wouldn't opposed to keep the bot running and just exempt all threads with crowners or stars from the autolocker.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanFirst paragraph: "When I send several hollers, only a few of them get any response at all"
Otherwise, I am trying to get every thread that has been stale for a month clocked. This might lead to the thread getting crownered.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Yeah, I have the impression that the mods are getting over-hollered.
Anyway, clocking old threads strikes me as an excellent idea, and precisely what clocks are meant for. Locking old threads out of the blue strikes me as wasteful. I would really like to get some more mods and especially Eddie in this discussion, though. Because for all we know, any thread that hasn't had activity in the past weekend may end up locked on monday.
I'm really not looking farward to having to go through this every month, with legitimate problems ignored, and the remaining threads anti-bumped by the inevitable flood of 120 new threads all at once.
Clocking makes sense. Locking without resolving the issues at hand will continue to cause problems.
Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.So, should this bot be repurposed into a clocking one, that runs continuously? For reference, the meaning of the clock is here
. Note: "Will be locked" means "the moderators will lock it if hollered", not "automatically locked"
edited 2nd Apr '12 1:27:54 PM by SeptimusHeap
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanNot if the clock auto-locks the threads. That just causes the same problems.
If a thread is stalled, it should not be torn apart by a robot. An actual human being, who can read and think, should look at it, think about whether or not there's a genuine trope problem that needs solving, decide whether it needs a bump, a crowner, a star, or something else, and take action necessary to resolve the problem.
I can't understand how "just ignore most of the trope problems on the wiki" was ever suggested, let alone carried out, as a serious solution to the TRS backlog.
edited 2nd Apr '12 1:04:04 PM by ArcadesSabboth
Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.Yes. The Gundamjack thread got a clock and was then locked due to lack of activity, but someone got it unlocked again.
Anyway, added warning against misreading the post.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanOK, yeah, the thinger you linked to confused me.
Ignored threads aren't helping the wiki, but that problems should be solved by resolving the problems mentioned in the threads, not by making a policy of ignoring them even harder, and pretending those problems will just go away.
edited 2nd Apr '12 2:18:34 PM by ArcadesSabboth
Oppression anywhere is a threat to democracy everywhere.

edited 21st Mar '12 12:51:30 PM by Martello
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