I'm kind of disappointed by this decision, and I wonder to what extent members were notified before it was enforced.
I haven't been on IF lately, and IF isn't the kind of site I see myself coming on everyday simply because life gets busy at times. But the things I do here are important to me, and mostly give me a creative outlet. Here I'm talking about siggie-making and FF-writing in particular. I can't set a timer to these things to come and post every 90 days. There's enough to keep track of in life.
Also, the point to making things on IF, whether it is writing or graphic art, is so others can participate in it and offer feedback. How is that possible if the topic is automatically closed? I don't think FFs and siggies have a low shelf life the way, say, a topic on the ending of a particular show might (because the latter does, I agree, get irrelevant after a certain point in time).
I can see the reasoning behind locking old regular topics, but can topics with original creative content by IF members such as siggies/avs and FFs please be excluded from this? Or at least allow mods to unlock these topics with requested by the OP.
EDIT:
I should also add that this is kind of a contradictory measure by the dev team. On the one hand, spamming is discouraged, and I agree with that. I hate when threads get long and clunky due to spamming, and for my part I have always avoided that in my own topics. E.g. I don't go in a reply to each person individually, but will just write one reply addressing all previous posts. On the other hand, we are being told to keep our topics active by posting regularly in them. So what is it going to be? Do we value posts that actually offer content? How does this improve browsing/reading/participating experience in IF?
Edited by --arti-- - 15 years ago