Newer Burmecia
29-03-2008, 14:46
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=552927
Didn't look at the date, and ran on the assumption that if a story is in the BBC's most popular now list, it's not going to date from '05. Guess I won't be doing that again...
Best something this old doesn't waste space, I think.
Bruxella
29-03-2008, 17:28
Same thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13565434&postcount=9).
Newer Burmecia
29-03-2008, 21:01
Out of general interest/advice - is there a general limit as to how old posted news stories are before they become 'old news' and likely to have been discussed before? Not that I'm planning on trawling through the BBC for things to post in NSG, but if I do come across something interesting in tne future, it'd be nice to know whether it'd go down like a lead balloon or not.
Ardchoille
30-03-2008, 06:15
I don't remember seeing any sort of ruling on it. You could go by the definition of Gravedigging in the OSRS:
Adding legitimate new material is permitted, and the acceptable age varies from forum to forum. Adding a book report in Jennifer Government is acceptable after months of inactivity, but bumping a week-old topic in General may not be.
Seems to me, though, that if you posted, rather than bumped, most week-old news in General you'd be howled down. Even two-days-old news is usually outdated for a new post. General's got a lot of people who don't just read news, they go out hunting for news to read.
You might get away with something older from a more obscure source, though -- like, say, posting a comment by a local columnist in a small-town newspaper, or the recurrent "I just heard someone say on the radio that ..." intros.
'Fraid, in the long run, it's gonna be up to you to judge.