Locked threads and necroposting

[Beverly]

One of my biggest pet peeves are locked posts. I don't like to lock old posts as you never know when someone will come through and want to answer it. That's my policy as an admin. The only posts I lock are ones that are resolved, such as technical issues. If someone is trolling, I don't lock the post, but I will delete it as I don't want that on my forum anyway.

As a forum member, I would rather not see very old posts get locked as usually the scenario goes like this.

So let's say that I find an interesting looking post title and click through, I read over the original post and all the responses and think about what I would like to say in response and then get to the end to find that it's been locked. Just seems like a waste of time, especially if it was a very good post (but just so happened to be an old post) and maybe I wanted to contribute something.

I can see why some really long posts are locked as there's no real need to keep adding responses after a question has been answered. But, then again, some posts get locked just because they are old and this is just the admin's way to discourage necroposting.

I just don't understand why new posts are considered better than older, seasoned posts that have multiple pages of responses.

Though I understand the value of new content (as in new discussions) being added daily, there is something comforting about a very old post that keeps getting responses from members.

 

[Azareal]

I don't really get the point of banning necroposting. Aslong as people aren't bumping old topics for the sake of it, I don't see the problem in allowing people to post in old discussions.
It just results in members recreating old discussions which already exist, when they could just post in the old discussions instead.

 

[Moonface]

I don't lock old topics besides things like old announcements, contests, etc. Otherwise, I leave them open for people to add their views if they have something to contribute. I'd rather an old discussion get revived, than a new topic of the exact same thing get made because the original was locked.