Free Republics wrote:Personally, I'd prefer to see threads that are posted in the wrong forum moved to the appropriate place, even if they're still lock-worthy.
If it's lock-worthy, it's ultimately irrelevant as to where it is insofar as "inappropriate or appropriate" board placement is concerned; its going to sink, regardless. That being said, if, say, a thread gets locked in Board
A and moved to Board
B, all you've really done is given the users of Board
B the same sort of clutter that users of Board
A might be displeased with; sometimes it still gets moved, regardless, but if it's just so woefully not going to work in either board, it often just gets locked and left to sink. If it's lock-worthy, but not obscene, spammy, etc. enough to warrant an immediate relocation to the Evidence Locker, locking it and moving it to a hidden locale doesn't readily demonstrate to the player that there is a problem and what the problem is. VoMing is possible, yes, but not every member of the staff is a Game Moderator, meaning anytime a Forum Mod ends-up doing simple board maintenance, they'd need to contact a Game Mod to do it for them.
I could see the argument for a public archive of misplaced, lock-worthy threads as a kindness to the player base, but that can also readily make record keeping cumbersome (not impossible, just cumbersome) when some extraneous circumstance (obscene material, for example) already doesn't warrant a relocation to the Locker. Furthermore, I don't foresee an entirely new board being made just for that when locked threads will simply sink into oblivion on the boards they're locked on to begin with.
Free Republics wrote:I think the best solution to stop off-topic spam in the NS sub-forum is probably to rename it to something more descriptive of the kinds of posts that actually belong in there. A new name like "National Roleplay" would probably stop the gameplay, WA and issue threads that have always plagued that subforum.
This has been brought up before. It was briefly discussed when the "Diplomacy" category was re-named to "National & International Roleplaying"; unfortunately, the division between the two boards isn't necessarily as clear-cut as some people think. There are things of potential international merit that get posted in NS, just as there are roleplays that take place entirely in a single nation and may not be just "WAAGH! WAR!" in II. It's been that way for quite some time.
If history has shown us anything, renaming it will make some people happy, displease others, and there will still be misplaced threads because a thread OP chose not to read a sticky, read a board description, take a glance at the type of threads there, or ask a Mod or Mentor for assistance.
Lockdownn wrote:I'm pretty sure threads like
this have little to no need to be in that sub-forum.
They don't, that is quite true. But see above as to why it is better for them simply to be locked and allowed to sink with a message visible to the OP.
Also, I don't foresee an auto-prune feature being enabled on a roleplaying board, much the same way I don't see it being disabled on F7 (a board largely dedicated to high-frequency thread postings - hence why auto-prune is enabled and post-counting there is disabled).