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Sheogorath
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Posted: 24th Jun 2015 08:40
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I think this is moronic and deteriorates discussion down to a limited time frame

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Posted: 26th Jun 2015 15:57
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We lock threads that are more than 90 days old, essentially 3 months. By the time 3 months have past with no one commenting in a thread the topic is normally outdated and is not suitable for bumping back to the top of the boards. In the case that a thread is locked when it shouldn't have been you can PM any mod and they will be able to restore it to the top of the boards so everyone can post again.

We have this policy as from experience old threads that people find via the search end up coming back when they are outdated and just confuse people.
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2015 19:03
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Is this the same case with WIP pages? That's the only time it bugged me is when I would have request a project page be opened every now and again in the old forums.
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2015 21:01
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It is the same there at the moment, but with the new forum software I could exclude that board, I will discuss with the team.
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