Is this policy not directly asking creators of projects if the project is up to date?
Back to your original post here, is that not what your asking moderators to do, go through the posts and make moderators ask topic posteres in the project category update their titile, or get thier topic deleted or moved. See again in original post.
Having a requirement to the status of a project put in the topic title is in effect asking for an update to that piece of information. If by what you said in reply,
then you should understand why i find it a annoying rule that is not necessarily in line with the type of culture the forum is going for.
But, lets go back to my original post where first I agreed with you that it would be helpful if topic titles contained more information, and suggested a compromise of sorts of a pinned post suggesting how to structure the title.
My only disagreement was with it being, that the suggestions be a hard rule, making it an effective demand of the forum useres in essence that topic creators provide this information.
What? How, is it not? Main post are rarely edited weeks months or years after, for anything other than a update to the game. The other cases are usually the exception not the norm for anything longer than a week. Same day or next day edits, sure they usually don’t contain an update but rather typo corrections, or something else.
The problem is time and effort is a two way street, you keep implying its not a big ask of topic creators and or moderators to do all this work, yet using my own project as an example, users repeatedly don’t notice or read the information even if its given to them, even if a topic creator does provide it.
My topics main post has the links to the latest posted version of the game along with the date of the release, the edit timespam is Aug 11, 2020 3:18 PM
Idk how many asking for updates posts to my topic i have flagged which at the time @grotlover2 dealt with, i even have a pm from him asking me not to be snarky in response to them, when i posted a funny image in response to one. Here is one that was not removed, and is an example of what @TheWell-Being is talking about here:
along with is asking for updates, its time stamp Dec 28, 2021 7:01 AM
Thats a whole year after the last update. The information is clearly there in my original post, clearly i had put in the effort to have a versioning system even if its not what @Legaciquiet agrees with, clearly i had put in the efffort to date the download llinks and what version was posted so you know if its new or not. You can take this a couple of ways,
- The user honestly does not understand
- The user does understand and just want me to spoon feed them the information in the way they want to see it
- their trolling me and are being disruptive
1 is honestly the least offensive case to consider, and the most unlikely and would still be against forum rules; 3 i think we can agree is just being rude, and still against form rules; however i think 2 is the most likely, but still is against forum rules.
Sorry to say it but demanding topic creators date their titles is another case of two, and honestly saying its just a date, how big of a deal can it be, seems like a small ask, untlill you get to the #Karen’s going but you need to date it DD-MM-YYYY and not MM-DD-YYYY, or someone wanting the long form August 27th, 2024. Now this is becoming like the versioning above. Or what about the person who comes along and demands the date leads the title not follows it, or the opposite. That’s not a big ask is it to put the date first?
Lets look at this, from another topic on the game forks where moderator @Krodmandoon is responding to a post that has been removed, probably because it was asking for an update:
If you look at the edits history of the original topic for the edit of when the 014d January 7th 2021 demo was posted here is the title and top of the post:
Forks: A Weight Gain Visual Novel (Bugfix Update 1/3/2021)
Current release: 014d (January 3, 2021)
After all this time, it’s finally out! The new, new demo is here and ready for download!
Only because i was following developnet Forks i know there was as many asks for it that have been since been removed as there was on my own topic, despite it having the information posted clearly.
It all is honestly fluff, the cherry on top so to speak. When i can get the date and time of any post or edit of a post using the built in tools of the forum as a user.
I don’t know how else to say that this ask to have more information in the topic just comes off as you the user is just being lazy, and self centered. If you have not posted a game yet and dealt with the enormous volume of asks of users regardless of if you already answered their ask in your main post or title, then i don’t think you have any frame of reference for how this ask is coming off.
You want a way to be able to filter out your fellow users interactions with a topic from getting in your way to finding and playing games(by asking topic creators and moderators for more work). And you have labeled all this as:
This does not seem like you want to engage with the community on the forum in a positive way or contribute to the topics, your only demanding more from topic posters and moderators, it feels like your here only to take from the community without giving back.