I dislike you using quote boxes to type your messages. It is unnecessary, makes reading harder, and makes quoting harder, in my opinion. The same applies to people who italicize their entire posts just because they think it looks cooler, rather than as a way to format their posts.
Not using quotation boxes would be better, honestly. That aside:
Anyone can view the dates for when comments are posted or when edits are made (as long as the edit is made after a certain time-span, otherwise no edit tag is shown at all). It’s also not really against the rules either, some people just really dislike it, and it ends up being pushed a lot depending on viewer-specific factors like the quality of that “necropost” and how long it has been.
Examples: Some people regard a “1 week” span of no replies as a necropost, even if it is of a high quality. Some people believe it should only be a necropost after, say, a month of inactivity. Some people don’t care too much about dates and just care about decent comments being made most of the time while on the Forum, rather than only contributing every fifth post and the other 80% being jokes.
Making vehicles more common might be alright, if combined with the whole “needing to repair cars first usually” thing too. Or, just reworking the vehicle cap to be based on a server option rather than a set limit.
I have no problem with necroposts as long as they’re quality or provide a unique point/view, but unfortunately this is not the case most of the time.
Then there’s the necroposts that try to be the above, but because the OP was from so long ago, the necropost is misinformed/obsolete and renders itself useless.
So what happened is I typed that post and then went to read something else on here. While I was reading other stuff I found out what a necropost is and came back to apologize. Sorry for sparking such a huge argument lol.
Necroposting isn’t just about turning off your notifications (which you shouldn’t have to do in the first place to begin with).
It’s also the fact that it can bring up topics that are no longer relevant and then cause users to believe they are current. Misinformation can easily happen out of this. Not only that, but often times these posts barely, if not at all, contribute to the main topic, and may also be invalid to the main post due to the time difference (one thing the OP said may not be true now, or whatever).
It’s annoying, especially knowing the fact the person didn’t take the time to look at the last post, an action that takes literally less than a second.
It’s just common courtesy; Don’t necropost.
EDIT: With that, we’ve gone completely off topic and my apologizes for contributing to that. I still agree that a vehicle overhaul is needed for 4.0.
I’d like to start by saying; since the beginning, from the get go, right off the bat…
Not relevant to this necropost. If you see that happen, regardless of time elapsed since the original post, or the most recent reply, you can (and often should) flag it as irrelevant.
The real issue is that Regulars are limited by how many times they can flag posts and comments.
If you flag more than 5 times in a 100-day span, you will have your Regular privileges revoked. It’s probably there to deter spam but to me is hugely counterintuitive.
its just the people who wont turn off their notifications xd