Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-24891101-20150527030147

This past week has made it abundantly clear that this wiki requires an official policy on thread necromancy. While in the past it has been vaguely manageable, recently it seems to be occurring far too often, and there is no reason to simply assume that it will cease. Even if this week is some strange aberration (which is quite likely), it grows tedious to inform newcomers to the internet of etiquette, all the more so because it isn't technically disallowed here.

Therefore I move to begin discussion of the creation of an official necromancy policy for this wiki as a community.

LiveandSound has previously suggested a three-month window for forum threads, which seems fairly reasonable in my eyes. We also would need to establish what manner of penalty (if any) thread necromancy carries (especially for anonymous users), though it is quite possible that merely forbidding it on pain of unspecified Admin action would be sufficient. In addition, we would need to determine if this policy differs for very old comments on pages. We should also address situations in which necromancy is acceptable, such as in cases where significant further contributions are made. I would further propose that the policy be relaxed on certain threads, so as to centralized discussion and discourage thread propagation.

Alternatively, it is possible that the decision could be made to allow thread necromancy, in which case policy should reflect that as well. 