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Old blog and Forum posts

GNB1965 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 01:30:10 GMT

I read a response to a comment I made on a forum post.
I believe it was a warning from one of the moderators. It's states that I should be checking the dates of the posts and that if they are old I should not be making comments on them.
Wouldn't it be easier for the moderators to just close the comments on that post?
It certainly would be more polite to do that than to admonish someone for posting on an old thread.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

GNB1965 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 01:36:20 GMT

Here is the post that I've received in response to my comment on the old thread:

You have bumped an old thread that has been inactive for more than a year! Please check dates on posts before replying, as this could get you banned if you keep doing it. It's against Community Standards.

How was I to know this was against Community standards? This is QVC. I was just sharing my experience with a product... I I wasn't using foul language, hate speech or offending anyone.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

sunshine45 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 01:40:30 GMT

here are the community standards if you want to review them.

https://www.qvc.com/content/information/qvc-community-standards.html?viewType=gallery&pageSize=96&redirh=t&

generally, any thread that is over a year old and has no additional responses for that period of time is considered OLD and responding to it is considered bumping.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

x Hedge — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 01:44:12 GMT

@GNB1965

I found the post in question, and the reply you received was from a fellow poster, not a mod.

When you registered to use these forums, you agreed to abide by the Community Standards. Suggest you read them.

Standards can be found in the left column below Quick Links.

Also please see the forum titled Welcome Get Started.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

blueroses47 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 01:44:42 GMT

I've never had that happen, but if I did I would feel exactly the same as you.

That reply by the moderator sounds ridiculous to me. If that post was left up, why in the world shouldn't you respond to it? Check the date? or you could get banned? What a rude and nonsensical response.

These people who run these things aren't doing a good job, obviously.

I wouldn't care if I did get banned, oh my heavens, for "violating" community "standards". Maybe that moderator should look at his/her own standards in running this two bit operation.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

mom2four0418 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 01:46:31 GMT

@GNB1965 wrote:
I read a response to a comment I made on a forum post.
I believe it was a warning from one of the moderators. It's states that I should be checking the dates of the posts and that if they are old I should not be making comments on them.
Wouldn't it be easier for the moderators to just close the comments on that post?
It certainly would be more polite to do that than to admonish someone for posting on an old thread.

I have seen posts get bumped that are well over the year and they are allowed to stay.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

x Hedge — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 01:48:20 GMT

@mom2four0418 ,

Not if it's called to the mod's attention.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

ahoymate — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 02:09:50 GMT

It would be easier if your font size wasn't so small! Hard to read.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

mom2four0418 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 02:23:18 GMT

@x Hedge wrote:
@mom2four0418 ,
Not if it's called to the mod's attention

Not in every case.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

Love my grandkids — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 02:24:44 GMT

If you see an old thread, click on Report Inappropriate and state that the forum is old so it can removed.

The mods can't check on every single thread for dates.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

SeaMaiden — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 02:25:42 GMT

I think the old threads should be locked. That way they can be viewed without being opened. Why can't they do this?

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

sunshine45 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 02:28:02 GMT

@SeaMaiden wrote:
I think the old threads should be locked. That way they can be viewed without being opened. Why can't they do this?

more than likely it has to do with the software program they are using.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

GenXmuse — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 02:40:10 GMT

It makes entirely too much sense, that's why they don't do it.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

x Hedge — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 02:41:50 GMT

@mom2four0418 wrote:
@x Hedge wrote:
@mom2four0418 ,
Not if it's called to the mod's attention

Not in every case.

Who is so rigid, that they can't deal with the exception when they see it?

Either report it or ignore it.

Don't make it sound like it's somehow the mods fault after someone bumps up an old thread.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

mom2four0418 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 03:28:44 GMT

@x Hedge wrote:
@mom2four0418 wrote:
@x Hedge wrote:
@mom2four0418 ,
Not if it's called to the mod's attention

Not in every case.
Who is so rigid, that they can't deal with the exception when they see it?

Either report it or ignore it.
Don't make it sound like it's somehow the mods fault after someone bumps up an old thread.

Are you directing your statement to me? Please show me where I said that it was the moderators' fault.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

Sheila P-Burg — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:37:21 GMT

As @SeaMaiden said, the old threads should be locked so no one can mistakenly respond. Best case scenario would be to delete them.

Any skilled IT department should be able to install a program capable of accomplishing either action.

Such a silly rule for "bumping an old thread". And yet worse things occur with no threats.

It should not be the Mods responsibility to "lock" or "delete" the old threads or to monitor whether someone has responded to an old thread. QVC's IT department really needs to step up and make some minor improvements to the forum.

The poster that responded to the OP about "bumping" also could have handled their response nicer. Instead they came across as threatening.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

Sheila P-Burg — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:49:09 GMT

@mom2four0418 ...... You didn't ask me but I am responding anyway. You did not refer to it being the Moderatot's fault in your posts. The way @x Hedge responded they agree with you that some "bumped" threads are allowed. Question is what is the "exception" to the rule?

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

kaydee50 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:54:39 GMT

@Sheila P-Burg I agree. I am amazed that I've found posts that started years ago and have had no recent activity. It should be relatively simple to delete any and all posts that have been inactive for a year or more.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

RespectLife — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:20:33 GMT

I don't think it is necessary to delete them.

I have had old posts come up in a search that were valuable to me. Especially recipes!

I wouldn't want them deleted.

Re: Old blog and Forum posts

NickNack — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 15:25:27 GMT

@blueroses47 wrote:
I've never had that happen, but if I did I would feel exactly the same as you.

That reply by the moderator sounds ridiculous to me. If that post was left up, why in the world shouldn't you respond to it? Check the date? or you could get banned? What a rude and nonsensical response.

These people who run these things aren't doing a good job, obviously.

I wouldn't care if I did get banned, oh my heavens, for "violating" community "standards". Maybe that moderator should look at his/her own standards in running this two bit operation.

@blueroses47 As someone else said, that reply wasn't from a moderator. It was from a fellow poster. When a moderator replies to a bumped post, they just say that the post was deleted because it was bumping up an old thread.