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Not too sure that they can just skip sections like that since there would be an auto-locking of old threads in place. I think the only way to close any older threads is to do them one by one and I think that would just take too long to do as there is just too many old threads to go through. So it's still best to let the community managers decide on whether they need to be closed or not.
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Yes I saw the thread
The actual information might be useful for those who haven't got most of the pack though with a rider that all problems in old posts probably patched.
Yes we do try to inform and remind members on the rule when it happens in a post but I'm not sure I'd like to warn someone for it unless it was repeatedly done. Anyone can make a mistake once or twice
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Ahhh completely misread that so ^^ Thanks for clarifying, that would be handy. I can pass that on and see if it's feasible for the forum.
Sims 4 is a game which is being updated and changed all the time with Packs and Patches and should be more carefully checked for outdated necro'd threads. Some are still current in terms of objects and interactions and bugs not addressed yet. There are no guides for it except those produced by external sites and some of those have started charging for theirs.
In Sims 4 we are all in the dark about what Packs contain except for nuggets of information from SimGurus and Forum posters who try to help. (Many thanks to them). No wonder Newbies thrash around trying to find their way.
Maybe a better Search facility might help with a "how far back" 1 year, 2 year etc., limit or what Pack?
We do actually have an "Advance Search" feature in place. Just hit the "Go" button next to the search feature up top and it takes you to the advance search page.
Or you could do a regular search first and then hit the gray down arrow in the search box.
Once you get there, just hit the down arrow where I've indicated it in this picture.
This next picture shows you the advance search feature that does have a drop down box that will have: 1 Day, 3 Days, 1 Week, 2 Weeks, 1 Month, 2 Months, 6 Months 1 Year listed in it.
But even still, once new members create their account and make their post in an older thread and start looking for more threads with the same topic that they've just posted in, they don't know about the advance search feature providing that they are still using the forum site and not Google to get to the other threads. Which in some cases, they are still using Google to click on the other links matching their search.
But the problem lies with some new forum members using Google search which then leads them to here once they click on the link to the post that they see on Google. And once here, they have to create an account to be able to post their findings or helpful tips and hints. And even though they put in "The Sims 4" in the Google search box, it still brings up "The Sims 3" postings as well but the person ignores the fact that it states "TS3" in the title or they ignore the dates posted under the titles.
Take this picture for an example:
I did a Google search for "The Sims 4 Ghosts and this came up in my search. The 2nd link is a TS4 link to a thread about changing clothes for a ghost while the 3nd one is a link from 2009 asking how to make a ghost appear for TS3. So if someone who's a TS4 player that's searching for answers on how to make a ghost appear, then they're going to click on that thread and ask their question and not see that it's an old thread from 2009. But if they have the answer to making ghost appear in TS4, they're still going to click on that link as they're not paying any attention to the date.
Some had suggested earlier in this thread I believe, that there should be a warning box that comes up when someone presses the "Post Comment" button that will alert them to the fact that the thread that they're about ready to post in is X amount of Days or Months old (depending on what the management team can put in there) and that it's hasn't been commented on since then. Then it would go on asking if the poster still wants to proceed with posting in the old outdated thread, then they either click on Post or Cancel. Then I'm thinking that once it's been posted, then there should be some type of an alert that goes to the community managers letting them know that someone has posted in an old outdated thread that they can look at and decide if it should remain open or close it and create a new thread for the new member.
Hope this makes sense...
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http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/917144/ts3-lisa-dawnlight-adventures-in-riverview/p1?new=1
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/942919/ts3-pluto-mars-in-lucky-palms/p1?new=1
Thanks for the information though. @lisasc360
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http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/917144/ts3-lisa-dawnlight-adventures-in-riverview/p1?new=1
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/942919/ts3-pluto-mars-in-lucky-palms/p1?new=1
However, what we do tend to mind and should not be allowed to stand are disruptive things like "You don't know what you are talking about, you are all wrong, of course the game has werewolves (weather, universities, travel to the future, etc.)!" on a thread that hadn't been touched for years before the relevant EPs came out. Or, again, TS4 solutions and follow-up TS4 questions to TS3 issues, but those almost have to be oversights on the poster's part as well unless they are trying to be disruptive intentionally.
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I do believe that just as long as people kept commenting on the thread from the time the thread started up until this year that it's okay. We do have threads that was created back then that's still being commented on such as the one in The Sims 3 General Discussion section titled "What Happened in your Sims 3 game today?" which was created in 2015 and still has members posting in it. But if it was one that was created back then but hadn't had any new comments to it in the last 1-3 years, then it is considered necroposting.
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http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/917144/ts3-lisa-dawnlight-adventures-in-riverview/p1?new=1
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/942919/ts3-pluto-mars-in-lucky-palms/p1?new=1
I'm just going to quote what I wrote on the 2nd page of this thread so that I don't have to rewrite it again...
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http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/917144/ts3-lisa-dawnlight-adventures-in-riverview/p1?new=1
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/942919/ts3-pluto-mars-in-lucky-palms/p1?new=1