To be fair, Ephemeral was trying to lay a rule down after practically saying anything was fair game barring NSFW content. Personally I didn't give it much importance. The main thing you have to understand is that moderation is a very disjointed effort, more so in a place that supposedly has no rules. But if you're willing to get a conversation started, I'm more than happy to work this out. So here's my take on this:
I see a necropost as a post with little to add that brings back a thread thought of as dead. That makes things pretty subjective, since it could be as little as two or three weeks for me to think of a thread as dead. Maybe even less for a thread I'd expect to be active all the time. To be completely honest, I tend to lose my better judgement just because the relevant necropost or thread was awful and just lock/delete it at the earliest opportunity.
Regarding the imageboard thing: We don't have the activity or UI to make this run like an imageboard since page 1 is pretty darn huge and old threads aren't locked or stashed away forever like 4chan would. If that's what you want to shoot for, it's beyond moderation's help.
Why there's a million locks everywhere: I'm not a fan of having a dozen locked threads lined up myself; one or two a week for a specific case would be enough and the rest can go to AW for all I care. Still, it's painful just how tempting it is to lock everything down with such rampant shitposting, so I'm practically forced to play my hand until I can find a direction to strive for here. Also Stefan's kind of learning the ropes. Anyway, I'm not exactly having a good time here and I see a lot of people feeling the same way. Now, I can influence change to my favor thanks to my position, but OT belongs to its userbase in the end.
So what exactly do you want out of OT's moderation?
You cared enough to post, at least.
I see a necropost as a post with little to add that brings back a thread thought of as dead. That makes things pretty subjective, since it could be as little as two or three weeks for me to think of a thread as dead. Maybe even less for a thread I'd expect to be active all the time. To be completely honest, I tend to lose my better judgement just because the relevant necropost or thread was awful and just lock/delete it at the earliest opportunity.
Regarding the imageboard thing: We don't have the activity or UI to make this run like an imageboard since page 1 is pretty darn huge and old threads aren't locked or stashed away forever like 4chan would. If that's what you want to shoot for, it's beyond moderation's help.
Why there's a million locks everywhere: I'm not a fan of having a dozen locked threads lined up myself; one or two a week for a specific case would be enough and the rest can go to AW for all I care. Still, it's painful just how tempting it is to lock everything down with such rampant shitposting, so I'm practically forced to play my hand until I can find a direction to strive for here. Also Stefan's kind of learning the ropes. Anyway, I'm not exactly having a good time here and I see a lot of people feeling the same way. Now, I can influence change to my favor thanks to my position, but OT belongs to its userbase in the end.
So what exactly do you want out of OT's moderation?
You cared enough to post, at least.