As an added note, I don't think most moderators have problems with members of the community working on steering discussions in the right direction. I know I personally have no problem when I look at a thread where someone has suggested something like "let's just not go there" or "hey, the forum rules say we should keep it civil" in their post, (along with other content, there's no reason to make posts that only do moderating when you're, y'know, not a moderator, or at least a well-recognized member who has been using the same name on any given community since 2002 or so)
In any situation though, it's also a good skill to know of when to hand something off to the moderators, either by sending a PM to one of them, or using a forum's post reporting system (if/when it has one.)
As far as old threads go. A bit over a week ago when this forum started to see activity, it had just about 2,000 total posts. A larger forum most of us know about has over 123,000 total posts.
There's a huge difference in the amount of content you'd need to drag through to find an old post, especially one whose latest activity was fully three years ago in 2007. Additionally, threads that old on the other board are probably far longer.
So there'll be a point on this board (like there is on every forum I suspect) where it'll become in bad taste to drag up old threads, just because the discussion was held mainly with people who are not around anymore, people who were way different in 2007 than they are in 2010, and in general, (at least I know this applies to me) not everyone wants to re-read all of that.
(I know I tend to dislike longer threads from that amount of time ago, just because it's... painful, sometimes.)
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In any situation though, it's also a good skill to know of when to hand something off to the moderators, either by sending a PM to one of them, or using a forum's post reporting system (if/when it has one.)
As far as old threads go. A bit over a week ago when this forum started to see activity, it had just about 2,000 total posts. A larger forum most of us know about has over 123,000 total posts.
There's a huge difference in the amount of content you'd need to drag through to find an old post, especially one whose latest activity was fully three years ago in 2007. Additionally, threads that old on the other board are probably far longer.
So there'll be a point on this board (like there is on every forum I suspect) where it'll become in bad taste to drag up old threads, just because the discussion was held mainly with people who are not around anymore, people who were way different in 2007 than they are in 2010, and in general, (at least I know this applies to me) not everyone wants to re-read all of that.
(I know I tend to dislike longer threads from that amount of time ago, just because it's... painful, sometimes.)
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