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I constantly see people commenting on blogs that are very old. Because of this, I'm making this forum to suggest a new rule.

The reason is that people comment on blogs and edit forums that are from 2011 and earlier. In addition, people wouldn't expect someone to comment/edit something so old. A perfect example can be found here.

The rule is simple: if someone edits a forum or comments a blog that is 6 months old or more, the administrator locks it.

However, if it includes a link included in Wanted Pages/Files/Categories lists (or anything else needing maintenance) then the user is free to edit it.

So, what do you say?

Poll

Poll finished on 5:19 pm July 14, 2012 (UTC).

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  • Use # {{yes}} ~~~~ if you support the proposal.
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• Please do not edit other user's votes.

• - Unnecessary rule, and makes redundant work for admins. Sorry, but I see no pros to this. -- GOTW ^{User | Talk} 17:49, July 7, 2012 (UTC)
• Per GOTW. --Cheese Lord (talk) 18:03, July 7, 2012 (UTC)
• See Below. Agent c (talk) 18:04, July 7, 2012 (UTC)
• I don't see any benefit to this. User rights requests and previous proposals are locked as a common practice after the poll or discussion is over anyway. And the rest has been said by Agent c already. --Skire (talk) 18:08, July 7, 2012 (UTC)
• I see where you are coming from, but I'm going to let others decide this one. ^{Hawk da Barber 2012} 18:15, July 7, 2012 (UTC)
• I don't think it's really a problem that requires urgent attention, or any attention at all for that matter. Also more work for admins. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Otisman! (talk) 18:21, July 7, 2012 (UTC)
• I'm with the others on this. I don't find this to be a problem that needs that sort of attention. I feel that anything that gets people commented and excited about Fallout is a good thing.-- 18:41, July 7, 2012 (UTC)
• I see the good intentions by Energy X, but I'll have to agree with Chad's comment below. --C'n-Frankie ^-ArroyoTalk 19:23, July 7, 2012 (UTC)
• I can see Energy X's reasons for wanting to do this, but I think it's a waste of time for the admins to have to go through every forum and blog post and lock it just because it's a year or two old.--Ryker6121:26, July 7, 2012 (UTC)~2:25pm 7/7/2012 "For the struggle of survival is a war without end!"

Comments

As a blanket rule, I think this is a bad idea. Some blogs, like my DLC/Mod ideas are timeless, and I welcome feedback no matter when you came across them... Some users got to experience them for the first time in chat the other night. With News blogs - particularly with the Beth v Iplay series, I can see a case for a final comment from the poster encouraging people to look at the next in the series and then lock as being a good thing, rather than leaving someone who stumbles across something half way through with the wrong impression. I'm happy to start doing locks as "best practice" for news digest blogs when the next is published if others agree this is a good practice. Agent c (talk) 18:04, July 7, 2012 (UTC)

But blogs like this are very old (and it might be a coincidence for someone to see and then comment). Even if it was popluar (a lot of comments there), I just don't see reason for somebody to comment on that subject. That is why I closed the comments on polls - the subject is over and move to next. Energy X ∞ 18:13, July 7, 2012 (UTC)