Messages for deleted posts - from 4 years ago?

[Solosanz]

Now you don't have to worry about old posts or threads As of today, the form for submitting reports now has a label for old posts or topics. If a reporter tries to submit a report on an old post or topic, they will get this warning:

I get a warning message if the post was created at October 12, 2022, so the forum consider above than 6 months is already an old post. I'm curious what if I report an old post? will my report marked as bad or unhandled? if the forum will not want to handle reported post which already 6 months old, why we can still submit a report or what is a valid reason we can report an old post?

[Xal0lex]

Yes, you're right, reports on posts or threads that are more than six months old may not be moderated and marked as bad. It's up to the moderator, but I'm sure that's what will happen. As for why it's still possible to send a report on posts or topics older than six months. Making two separate forms to send reports or closing the form for such posts is too difficult, IMHO.

[Rikafip]

if the forum will not want to handle reported post which already 6 months old, why we can still submit a report or what is a valid reason we can report an old post?

From what I understand, its not that moderators won't handle all reports for posts made more than 6 months ago, but only in cases mentioned in that message so for example if you want to report old post that has malware link, they will act on that so blocking it for all posts made more than six months ago woulnd't make sense.

I have to say that this new update definitely makes sense as I see no much purpose in reporting years old posts for trivial reasons like thread bumping or consecutive posting other than stat padding. This way moderators will have more time to handle reports of the recent posts that actually affect us on the daily basis.

[light_warrior]

I wonder what percentage of the statistics of the reports are reports on old (more than six months) posts? How will the number of reports decrease because of this restriction? It would be very interesting to see

[Rikafip]

I wonder what percentage of the statistics of the reports are reports on old (more than six months) posts? How will the number of reports decrease because of this restriction?

Probably a big chunk of reports went on those old posts otherwise there woulnd't be such a change so I expect quite a big drop in reports numbers. Now that admins gonna have a little bit more time on their hands, I hope they become more strict in certain boards but I doubt that's gonna happen.

[Mpamaegbu]

If you received email notifications for your deleted posts, it means those posts were deleted individually by moderators.

If your posts belong to a thread which was reported then deleted by forum moderators, you will not get email notifications.

Why do we've double standard for deletion, then? Is there any explanation for such?

[Solosanz]

From what I understand, its not that moderators won't handle all reports for posts made more than 6 months ago, but only in cases mentioned in that message so for example if you want to report old post that has malware link, they will act on that so blocking it for all posts made more than six months ago woulnd't make sense.

That's the point I want to know what's the other reason to report an old post, because it's usually about to clean the forum. But yeah a malware link seems to be one of the reason why it should be reported regardless how old or new the post is.

Why do we've double standard for deletion, then? Is there any explanation for such?

Because if your post get deleted manually by the moderator, it's mean the problem is from your post. But if your post got deleted because the moderator deleted the main thread, it's mean your post high likely not broke the forum rules.

[light_warrior]

Yes, you're right, reports on posts or threads that are more than six months old may not be moderated and marked as bad.

Okay, but what about the reports, where you need to change something? For example, in this post, the user didn't form his links correctly and that makes them inoperable. Yes, the post was written in 2017. But, as they say, for history How to deal with such a thing? Question to all moderators. Or is it no longer important for history?

[vapourminer]

I wonder what percentage of the statistics of the reports are reports on old (more than six months) posts? How will the number of reports decrease because of this restriction? It would be very interesting to see

when i checked my report stats recently there were about ~300 reports and, until a couple months ago, 3 were reported as "unhandled" and iirc it was at 3 for several years. then the other day i reported a post and noticed my "unhandled" went down to 2.

so either some very old report just aged out or some very old report from some ancient post finally got taken care of (not my report specifically, prolly mine is just one of many reports on that particular post).

[Cryptomiles1]

Okay for a little breakdown about deleted post, although i know there have been lot of contributions but i must tell you truth about something you don't need to worry again. If your post is deleted have it at back of your mind that your post has a low quality effort, or your post is out of topic maybe those post were lot of reports made while submitting bounty reports, or could be hate speeches.
It's normal thing for your post to get deleted and even some of my post has also been deleted then, and from then i kept putting more efforts to make sure none of my post will be deleted again.

[Halab]

Okay, but what about the reports, where you need to change something? For example, in this post, the user didn't form his links correctly and that makes them inoperable. Yes, the post was written in 2017. But, as they say, for history How to deal with such a thing? Question to all moderators. Or is it no longer important for history?

In this particular case, Xandry has already answered (3 posts below, OK... 4 years later) but OP has certainly seen his message and did not take his time to fix the links. Why take your time to make a report to ask to fix the links ? Why should a mod take his time to fix the links ?
History will remember that OP didn't know how to make good links .
(Another mod might give a different answer than mine, Theymos didn't interconnect our brains... not yet )