Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-34326521-20141005101404/@comment-34326521-20141028065249

Xanton wrote: Joking aside what is a bot then and why is it so difficult to shut these things down?

We don't have bots at the moment. If we did, you'd notice it.

Xanton wrote: If dead forums are dead I don't see why day by day someone couldn't just go and delete off as many as you could. You don't have to do it on consecutive days just, when you're on the wiki, take a few dead threads off the block.

Because it wouldn't make a difference.

Xanton wrote: Also taking into account that I and, as Doc Animo has proven, others weren't here when change happened, the subject then becomes how do you make people like us, absentees gone for long periods of time, aware of rule changes.

We have no means or even obligation to do it. The rules page is something every user should follow, or at least keep themselves updated on. Additionally, for a week after the rule was changed, there was a highlighted thread telling users to read it, and the rule itself was underlined in the list of rules for about a month (being a new rule and all).