Replying to oldish threads.

[Yate]

I have been given an infraction for replying to a thread from December.

My question to the community mods (rather than send lots of PMs), Can you justify giving an infraction to a thread that's 3 months old, unanswered and still open? Even if it's a constructive and informative reply? It's not as if I'm bumping old topics for the hell of it...

If this is a problem - you should really go through all the old threads and close them all so nobody can reply, as I'm sure I'm not the only person to have done this.

It's just, I get the impression that the moderators (that could be considered verging on turning into Nazi's) are getting a little power happy.

I will not name the MOD who has been giving me infractions, he know's who he is

Anywho, that's all I wanted to see
See Ya!

Yate Reviewed by Yate on 17th Feb 2012. Replying to oldish threads. I have been given an infraction for replying to a thread from December. My question to the community mods (rather than send lots of PMs), Can you justify giving an infraction to a thread that's 3 months old, unanswered and still open? Even if it's a constructive and informative reply? It's not as if I'm bumping old topics for the hell of it... If this is a problem - you should really go through all the old threads and close them all so nobody can reply, as I'm sure I'm not the only Rating: 5

[Rox]

Not three months sir! It was december 2010. We are in 2012

http://www.besthostingforums.com/10-...-free-rdp.html

and yeah, i gave you infraction - i name myself!

[Daniel]

I don't see anything wrong with bumping old topics if you're posting something relevant and useful.

[Maxxx]

yup as OJ said it like KWWH gets traffic from google,so if useful it good or else mods must consider them self to close the topic before anyone bumps it

[Mr Happy]

Strongly disagree with giving infractions for bumping old threads if it's relevant and of good quality.

Google loves sites who update old content and keep things current. It's the sign of an active and well managed site. 90% of sites don't update old content which is annoying when you find it in Google. eg think of a warez site and dead links. Doesn't it piss you off it's not updated and kept current?

Google has a freshness algorithm that ranks newer content higher. By adding new relevant content to an existing topic that topic appears much higher up search results.

The other thing is these old topic that are updated regularly are seen as more important by Google. Why would a topic be bumped if it's not interesting or still relevant? A discussion going on for a number of years must be more interesting that one going on for three days.


People hate finding old unanswered threads. If you have a problem and find an old question but it's not answered you get a very bad impression of the site.

Quality content is what matters. It doesn't matter the age. If the content is relevant and of a high quality it should be posted.

[Yate]

I honestly think that yes I didn't see the day - Hell, I'm not even sure how I found that thread! I think it was on the threads similar to this one bit at the bottom.

Anywho - I think that the infraction given to me was done in an unfair way and as it's my first mistake I should at least be given a warning and at the very least an opportunity to correct my mistake.

I would like to make a request that my infraction is revoked.

P.S thanks for the reply Mr H, I am glad to see I'm not the only person on here with some common sense.

[Boss]

in this case for me Rox is correct becaz this reply is made to a thread where the subject domain (reviewthathost.com) is dead so reply for this kind theard may mislead the members

[Yate]

Well if nobody is allowed to reply to it why didn't a MOD close it?

I am being penalised for something that was an honest mistake.

[foxman]

I don't see anything wrong with bumping old topics if you're posting something relevant and useful.

I have to agree with this!

[immu]

if threads which are no more allowed to bump like review sites should be locked
and its harsh to give an infraction for a member who bumped the old thread when he has something worth in the Reply.