2010-07-23, 07:58 PM
Swerve Wrote:If you have nothing new to contribute, then you can edit your original post every so often in order to keep it unlocked. If your thread ends up getting locked, then create a new thread with the important elements from the old ones. If the thread is important then you should be able to at least keep track of it every twenty days. Is it a nuisance? Sure. Does it suck for you individually? Yes. If you wanted you could possibly stick your thread in the Open Canvas as music could arguably fit the description of a type of art. I'm sure that no one is going to call you out as far more irrelevant topics get misplaced all over the forum board and people just let it slide. Especially in the case that you will be revisiting your own thread, I'm sure that it should fine with a lot of people. The rule isn't fundamentally horrible. It can be a little impractical but there are many methods of working with it if you choose to truly be serious regarding your own threads that you find to be of utmost significance. There are ways of getting what you want without needing to directly change or challenge the rules.
From what I understand about vB it shouldn't take more than a few seconds to lift this on a single forum. I understand there are ways of getting around it, but why force people out of their way to do it?
I don't see the reasoning behind NOT getting rid of it on the Expressive Arts, that is all. People are being so protective of the rule as if it has to be, and it just doesn't have to be. If someone would give me a valid argument as to why, maybe I would accept it to be how it is. It's not because I'm lazy, it's not because I can't figure it out, it's because the rule just has no value in this area.