clojureverse-ops

plexus 2024-09-10T17:24:05.839329Z

I brought in that six months rule because we had a number of discussion threads that kept getting dragged up again. Someone would arrive after months of inactivity, and add their OpInIOn. A hundred people would get notified, and people would start rehashing the same arguments that were given twenty messages earlier because no one bothered to read the whole thing anymore. It was rather unpleasant. I much prefer the short lived threads. If you're picking up a conversation months later it's not the same conversation, and I think you should restart by establishing context, ie linking back and explaining what went before and what you're adding to the discourse. If you do have a good reason to reopen a thread then you can ask the mods. I'm aware not everyone agrees with this decision, and to be fair I'm not very present on clojureverse these days, so I'm ok with revising that policy if there's some consensus that it would be preferred

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seancorfield 2024-09-10T17:32:39.300149Z

Spammers tend to be the ones mostly likely to try to "revive" old threads in my experience so I am in favor of keeping the 6 month cutoff.