Minecraft Wiki talk:Talk page guidelines

Replying to old posts
To clarify, is replying to an old post (general rule #4, last sentence) an undo-able offense, or just discouraged? My personal feeling is that if a topic hasn't been archived then it's open. And if a reply is no longer really relevant, then so what -- if it was in good faith, just ignore it if you don't want to reply to it or point out the reply's irrelevance. Every time we delete someone's post we may be discouraging them from becoming a positive contributor to the wiki in the future. &mdash;munin &middot;  &middot; 15:29, 21 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I personally don't have anything against most replies, I mainly find those comments annoying when a user is pointing out all the solutions to a problem that did not exist. As for actually reverting them, since we officially have the guideline in place, it is no longer disallowed to reply to old comments (I specifically worded it to "discouraged" rather than "disallowed"), so I stopped reverting them. (I was planning on discussing this with a couple older editors, though I wanted to wait until the site notice, then I forgot about it)
 * I would agree a reply to a old comment reply makes more sense, although if we archived the pages better that would avoid the problem for the most part. It would even make sense if you see a reply to an old comment to take that as a cue to archive the topics. – KnightMiner  · (t) 16:07, 21 March 2015 (UTC)