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Valve Jannies with necrodisease, kill top google result threads with no answer (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/steam@lemmy.ml
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So irritating, you find exactly the thread about your issue,

You ask for the answer, but they close it instead !!

So everyone else is going to end up here, with no voice, no way to even say "hey you jannie why you'd close are thread, do you have a learning disability" ?

How often do you end up mute in those top threads.

And they wonder why public forums are dying !

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I honestly don't know why reviving threads is so bad. If there's a place that has the conversation you need, then what is so bad about it? Stackoverflow I get if you're going off topic or if you need to start a new one for a new problem, but it makes sense to me if you have the same issue and found an issue - or even better a solution to a years old problem. Why as a moderator would you be against that?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think it's a habit, of forum dwellers, sitting in the chronological view, pressing that F5 button for some dopamine, for something new, then an old thread shows up and they get very uppity, they report, the mods are annoyed, they don't care, they close the thread it increases their action quota key performance indicator, none of the people involved even know what google had to do with it, they think all other forum users are like them, refreshing that post chronological order, not there to find answers but waiting for novel entertaining question, not "old settled stuff from 8 years ago". And that's how decades spanning conversations get ended without a second thought and that's why forums are dying because those are the people running it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    That's the only thing that I've ever been able to think of, that mods don't like it so they end it - that they have some sort of "engagement" metric for new threads so why have an old one that is active when we could start a new one. At the very least a mod could say "Start a new thread, I'll update this one with a link to the new one for people who stumble on this later.

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    • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Just make a new post asking the same thing, instead of trying to revive a post that was retired EIGHT years ago.

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Nobody on google is going to find the answer now, try again.
    Nobody from google is going to be able to post the solution if they have it.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So? That's googles problem to index search results better. If that eight year old thread was any good, you wouldn't have needed to revive it to ask for the solution anyway.

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  • [+] [S] -13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You have necrodisease

    The question of "How to pickup the unconcious soldier in deus ex tutorial and why none of the keybinding works"
    is the kind of question that is answered over the decades nor mere months.
    Dozens of people play that game per year and even fewer even do the tutorial.
    Normal people just find the thread, find it has no answer, and uninstall the game since it's broken.

    This idea that the thread initial posting date and any relevance whatsoever is exactly the problem.
    Anyone that believes that is perpetuating the problem.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What you call necrodisease, the rest of the world calls common sense.

    At this point, the issue the original thread was created for was already solved, and more than half the thread was people being trolls. anyone that cared in that thread had long since moved on to other things. Why would notifying them be of any use? You're not even facing the same issue! Start a fresh thread, outline all the details involved (including that you're playing with a co-op mod!) in your own thread, and discuss it without any irrelevant baggage.

    The answer to your question is that in vanilla DX, you press Right Mouse Button, and if the body has items on it, you'll loot those first, and then pressing RMB again would pick up the body. If there's no free space in your inventory, you'll just be stuck trying to loot the body. In mods like DX: Revision, they made tweaks so the items would be dropped on the ground if you've no inventory space, but you're playing with an unnamed co-op mod, so all bets are off. Seeing as all the missions were made with only one player in mind, Player 2 might be stuck trying to loot it over and over, because the flag that says the body was searched is only getting set for Player 1.

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 1 year ago

    This isn't about the content of this particular post. We've figured out a workaround. We're not even playing revision, that is just the place where the discussion, the most relevant google-determined discussion space was happening and now its been shutdown.

    And no, right mouse button doesn't work. Everyone else who tries it like us is going to end up with the same problem. And now the discussion is closed so there will never be answer, nobody can post a answer, ask clarification no one, the micro community of the people who are having this problem, has been shattered forever by a careless, obsessive mods who probably has incentives to close threads/perform actions/increase his key performance indicators, that's why they're doing it, "necroposting" is just the handwave to justifying shutdown things.

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    • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Downvotes from dipshit lemmoids are like badges of honor op. That’s how you know you’re right.

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    • [+] [S] -9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Moderator "necrodisease" is the belief that if a post is older than a couple page of the forum's front page, then posting to it is "necroposting" because if it's old it's resolved and therefore should be closed.

    And then you have to stupid places where they auto close everything after a while.

    And that's why your google forum threads end up going nowhere

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