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[PatT2]

See, if someone buys a game a year after release, or maybe two, and comes here and starts asking questions that have been answered a hundred times already by those who owned the game before, they run into this problem: they're told to use the search function.

Then they do, and if they search function brings up an on-topic thread that doesn't quite clarify their intentions, they ask another question on a now-necro'd thread.

So, which SHOULD they be flamed for....not using search, or thread necroing.
Seems to me you can' thave it both ways. But on the forums, there are people valiantly slamming people for bringing up old thread (when the user may have just bought DA:O because of their exposure to DA:2). Now they will have wuestions that are asked and answered...and they don't realize about thread necroing and they get jumped on.

Or they don't search and they get jumped on. Should not the community attempt to be more supportive and allow some lattitude about either necroing threads or not using search, since one invariable leads to the other?

Or perhaps people need to chill around here and not have so many chiefs (that aren't mods) tellign everyone what to do. It's a very unfriendly environmnet for the new folks. (Me, I could care less...these plebes haven't run me off yet in the many years on this and the old forum...they don't frighten me and I don't need their approval). I'm speaking for the newcomers. They're Bioware's Customers and deserve better and more consistent training and perhaps the rules for the forums should also be more consistent. Search, but then be tolerant toward necros if someone finds something but it doesn't answer every question, or stop telling people to search which will cut down on the necroing.

Expecting people to do both will just lead to frustration and lack of clarity of expectations. I doubt customers feel comfortable when treated such. I mean, sometimes these forum can be barely civil anyaway and one feels like one's walking into a high-school gym locker room with too much energy that hadn't been spent on the field. I'm old enough to smack em down if I have to...they're my grandkids age. But for the less sturdy folks...this must be quite unnerving.

The rules must be more clear. And the rent-a-cops should go get busy with somehing more like life. Too many cooks....

Nuff outa me.
Pat

[Jayce]

My comment would be this... With some exceptions, there's nothing wrong with thread necroing to ask a question, though generally if a very old thread throws up some questions you want to ask it may be a good idea to open a new thread to ask them in and just copy past any quote you think relevant. If a moderator takes issue with you for doing so they deserve to be drop kicked. If you necro a thread that is a week or so old for some dumb reason like a pointless "me too" then you deserve the dropkicking... If some dumbo comes along and whines at you for necroing and they aren't a moderator: ignore them.

Common sense stuf,f basically.

Oh and this idea of there being some sort of 1 hour threshold on adding a new post to a thread is utter bunk.

[PatT2]

Gracias