Final Death of Necroposting

Problem with all of this is that first of all, you're limiting your moderation team. Their job is to help moderate the forum.

Their job is what I say it is. And I say they're not the timestamp police. End of story there.

Secondly, closing threads after 21 days? Isn't that rather hasty? Why not close it off after every 3 weeks (28 days)? Or perhaps even a month? All you're doing, really, is making it less of a hassle for the team, while on the other hand, encouraging users to spam more threads. Assume that the "What anime have you been watching?" thread doesn't get a response in approximately 21 days straight because xyz users have been busy with their lives. But a new member joined and wanted to post, but oh no, it's locked. Yes, then sticky it. Oh, but then you'd have to sticky a ton of threads that people likes to post in ...actively. This creates a new problem.

21 days is every three weeks. The current necroposting rule was 2 weeks, or 14 days. This change extended the time someone had to make a reply, making "hasty" a ridiculous counter argument. The only thing that will be stickied is items that warrant it because the OP has the ability to extend the life of their thread at any time without bumping it. If they don't exist 21 days later and no one has touched the thread, it's time for a new version of it anyhow.

New users can't even see threads that have passed the deadline unless they adjust their settings or specifically search for them, except in forums that are exempt from the rule in the first place, or in announcement type sections where they'd still have no reason to reply to something quite dead but should be allowed to see them.

By doing this, you've closed off older threads, but encouraged others to make the same threads after every 21 days under the assumption that a specific thread doesn't get a reply in 21 days.

You speak of creating a new thread like it's some unheard of monstrosity. It's the exact same resource drain on the server whether we have one thread with 5000 posts or 1000 threads with 50, and it's easier on everyone to only have to wade through the more current iterations, especially if there's nearly month long gaps in between each version, which their shouldn't be anyhow because if it's going past 14 days without posting most of it gets locked today the minute someone necros it, invalidating your argument and before the rule changes last month the necro ticker was seven days, meaning even less chances of older threads being available to post in.

I'm sure Sarah and the others pretty much expected the same sh`it I did, so they all left. Surprised the rest of you haven't.

Sarah would be quite happy to tell you why she left so please don't try to supply reasons on her behalf based on your own opinions. She can speak for herself, as can others, something you clearly lack the balls to do directly based on your lame attempt to hide this particular chunk of your message in white text. If you have an actual problem with how the site is being run you're welcome to bring it up, but I expect it to actually be factual and have points, preferably even original ones we haven't hashed over a half dozen times already, not be opinionated whining about the end of the world just because something changed and you don't like it just because I did it. Venting is for the angry dome or your blog and we explicitly forbid "I'm quitting" and "this is why I quit" threads because no one cares.