Unlock/Stop locking news threads!

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"I suggest all of us who are really concerned about the welfare of this news board to band together and fight for a format that benefit users instead of solely for the convenience of mods. Remember, if we don't voice our opinions about the forum, we will just be treated as silent subjects to be experimented upon and will take it without even a whimper, perhaps because we are deemed not worthy for consultation and MAL is so great and indispensable that we have to come back to it no matter how things are changed for the worse for us. Or perhaps it is thought that most people won't care or even notice anyway. Hubris? Complacency? I don't know. But I would really hope that it is not just you and me who are against the idea, but there are a lot more people who are unhappy with the change and the lack of discussion or even explanation regarding the decision-making." -Symbv


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Poll: Should news threads that are one month old be locked? Reason, counter arguments, and complaints
VioLink - Dec 10, 2013
14 repliesby yhunata »»
Jan 5, 2014 12:05 AM
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VioLink - Dec 10, 2013
2 repliesby Progeusz »»
Dec 30, 2013 2:55 PM
Recent News Board Changes/New Suggestion
Wind_Sr - Dec 23, 2013
13 repliesby neontaster »»
Dec 30, 2013 6:42 AM



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kuuderes_shadow | Jun 29, 2015 5:55 AM
In case you haven't seen it

5. For the meantime, news threads will no longer be locked. Wondering why we got the ability to sort boards by thread creation date instead of only last reply? We'd like to stop locking news threads, and hope that this feature will help users differentiate between new and old threads in the board. However, we ask that users refrain from posting new information about anime series in threads 1+ week old, and instead submit a news article. We'd also like to ask users to not bump old threads with spam posts or "still no news?"

Ejc | Jul 5, 2014 4:25 AM
The News Club is now public. Anyone interested can join freely. Link is below.

Ejc | Jul 2, 2014 12:34 AM
Just another reminder if anyone didn't see hpulley's previous message about The News Club. We will eventually make The News Club as a public club, but for now it is still a private club (so anyone interested, please apply to join the club).

hpulley said:
If people are still looking for a place to read and post about news without worrying about threads being locked, you can come and check out The News Club:
http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=41317

Muuse | Jun 23, 2014 8:20 PM
Oh that's pretty cool, thanks for the link.

hpulley | Jun 23, 2014 4:45 AM
If people are still looking for a place to read and post about news without worrying about threads being locked, you can come and check out The News Club:
http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=41317

Shizora | Mar 25, 2014 7:28 AM
This is a good news, at one situation full of bad news and bad decisions.. Even if it is a step more later, not enough to create a stable system according what is necessary to MAL...

Hahalollawl | Mar 23, 2014 9:29 PM
I'm quite pleased that much of (if not all of) Kineta's reasoning for closing the older news announcement threads despite the possibility of updates has been exposed as utterly ridiculous. The Weekly Briefs thread is already somewhat akin to an admission that some updates do deserve to be posted in the News forum.

Furthermore the News forum now has a thread dedicated to PVs. Yet, was it not Kineta who pointed out that PVs were already being posted in Series forums and that therefore they were creating "parallel" discussion by being posted in the News forum (http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=702895&show=40)? That was so stupid. OMG a PV might be posted in the News forum AND the Series forum?! THE HORROR LOL!

Perhaps the most obvious admission that they have created a difficult situation is the unlocking of announcement threads. By locking the announcement thread they have basically made things more difficult to update for News mods (who appear to need someone else to unlock it) but also admitted we were right by unlocking them. There are indeed updates that should be posted in the announcement threads. I'm not sure a single of Kineta's arguments holds significant weight at this point.

Shizora | Mar 23, 2014 1:38 PM
Wait and see how the situation
progresses...

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