30 Day - No Thread Bump Rule?

[MrGiz]

Does ECCIE.net enforce the silly "No Thread Bump after 30 Day Rule" ?

I've never really understood the reasons....

Giz

[bluffcityguy]

Originally Posted by MrGiz

Does ECCIE.net enforce the silly "No Thread Bump after 30 Day Rule" ?

I've never really understood the reasons....

Giz

FWIW, I got the impression that the purpose of the 30 day rule, especially for things like reviews, was meant to insure "freshness" of discussion and information.

Was the 30 day rule BIG C's, or was it a board standard back at ASPD? BIG C moderated most of the boards that I hung out there (TN, ARK, MS, AL, STL/MO, and KY; BIG C modded all those boards except for STL/MO and KY) and the STL/MO and KY board mods were much, much more lenient about >30 day thread bumps than BIG C, so even if it was an ASPD boardwide rule I have the suspicion that BIG C was one of the few, if not only, board mods that actually enforced it.

Then again, the enthusiasm with which he enforced it made up for the leniency on the other boards.

Cheers,

bcg

[charlestudor2005]

Originally Posted by bluffcityguy

Was the 30 day rule BIG C's, or was it a board standard back at ASPD?
bcg

As far as I know, it was an ASPD standard. It was enforced (maybe loosely) in Houston, Austin and Dallas, some of the boards where I hung out before visiting AR.

[GneissGuy]

Originally Posted by charlestudor2005

As far as I know, it was an ASPD standard. It was enforced (maybe loosely) in Houston, Austin and Dallas, some of the boards where I hung out before visiting AR.

The board had no automatic way to lock threads after 30 days. If someone posted on an old thread, sometimes the staff would notice and lock it, sometimes they wouldn't. Sometimes if it wasn't someone stirring up old wounds, the mods wouldn't bother.

[Bimboknocker]

Gneiss, Big C always noticed, even one day over. And with him it didn't have to be old wounds, if somebody started shooting he would lock it before they could wound you.

[warbird]

Never understood that rule. Instead of having fewer threads to manage and go back and read you have a ton more 1 or 2 posts threads to wade through.

[SkipperRon]

I always thought that that rule was strange and unnecessary.

Maybe a better rule would be against unreasonable bumping (and then, who is the judge of reason?).

maybe 90 days??

[BIG C]

First, to answer your question of the 30 day rule.....It's relaxed around here at least for the time being.....

Now, the purpose of the rule as has been stated was to ensure freshness and reiability of information.....And for the record, when I first started enforcing the "bumping an old thread" rule, I was originally using 90 days as my cutoff.....I didn't go to 30 days until after I started a discussion on it in the staff area (to find out what other mods were using as their cutoff) and the consensus was 30 days, so they put that into the warnings.....Therefore, it wasn't just a BIG C rule since that was what the majority of the staff said they used as their benchmark.....

I enforced the rule whenever I found a violation but if my memory serves me correct, I believe I only assessed points to 2, maybe 3 people and that was only after they became belligerent after I informed them about violating the rule.....Most people just said "Sorry" and left it alone, while those 2 or 3 people wanted to fight about it.....If I see a trend here the way I saw things going on ASPD (i.e., people continuing to bump threads that were a couple of years old), then I'll start enforcing the rule much the same way that I did at ASPD and that is to ask people not to bump old threads and close the thread to prevent further replies.....