First, as concerns the trash can:
Most topics moved to the trash can are short, useless and uninteresting, and any normally constituted member would see no interest in reading them. It's not really a place for pure spam, which we usually delete, unless we want to keep the IP address somewhere, nor a subforum where all locked topics are to be sent, because some of them may still be interesting to read.spiraldoor wrote:Why isn't it visible?
Probably because moderators are only humans and sometimes forget about them. If I'm not mistaken, two topics out of the three you mentioned were posted in the Guests forum, which is a bit of a lawless area, to my great dismay, and I can understand why people hardly care about it. It, however, serves it purpose, as it recently helped Dango to get his account back, which you can consider either an advantage or a disadvantagespiraldoor wrote:Why are there still a bunch of locked spam topics not in it?
As far as I know, there is no time limit for bumping an old topic, as long as it isn't a deliberate attempt to get more posts. On the contrary, I'd rather see an old quality topic bumped than a new one created instead.spiraldoor wrote:There are a whole bunch of ancient threads that I'd like to post in, but I can't, because it's "bumping", which is "annoying".
As for the games subforum, I'm ready to listen to your arguments, but I don't think it's really needed. I see nothing wrong with posting a topic for each game in the Off-Topic forum actually. You need to realise that the division of a message board into categories, forums and subforums is to be decided in function of its size. For example, when noobs create a board, they usually divide it into a lot of forums, sometimes more than 15, which is only suitable for boards over one or two million messages. People who visit PC rarely bother checking every forum, this is why it's not worth creating a games subforum if it doesn't get an activity of 15% of the Off-Topic forum.
