Definately, i think there are a good amount of IC players and Vets that would enjoy another mafia game.

actually, zarf plays too

i think his point was that you cant bump old posts, just open a new thread about it

Now that I'm not posting from my phone, I'll get to this.

First thing's first: It was clearly a violation of the "no bumping old threads" rule, because the last post of the thread bumped was over a year old.  You're not disputing this.

The only issue of contention here on your part is whether there was a justification for a bumping.  Your discussion really had no reason why it needed to be attached to the year-old thread, as there wasn't any content in that thread which uniquely added to the content within your post for the discussion you were hoping to have.  Furthermore, even if there was content that could have been added to the conversation via the old thread, that could have been solved by simply linking to the old thread.  If anything, the only influence that can be seen is that your discussion may be unnoticed because it's buried within a preexisting thread, as opposed to existing on its own.

In short, at the point where there's an undisputed rules violation, is there a reason why the discussion needed to be within a year-old thread as opposed to being its own separate thread?

Since when did rule enforcement only apply to issues which were "big deals," particularly when you can't actually present a reason why the topic was better presented as a bump than a new thread?

You're still not giving me the "why" on whether or not it was a bad call.  At the point where there is no reason his discussion should have taken place in that other thread, as opposed to a new thread, and at the point where there's only a risk of harm in allowing it, there's absolutely no reason why it was a bad call.  So I ask again... justify your argument if you're going to make one.

*puts an arrow in banksy's knee*

No more adventuring with ice cream for you!  You're stuck with boring chocolate!

Common sense would say that in a game with a dying community, very little forum/chat activity and no real sense of fun anywhere, that a simple thread being brought back isn't going to hurt anyone. I mean take a good look at the general forum. Honestly, what purpose did you serve by closing an old thread that was actually generating positive feedback in the short time it was revived?

Just because you "can" do something doesn't mean you "should". And at the end of the day, all you eventually did was kill the seed of interest in something that has normally entertained the masses quite well. That is why your decision to close a silly thread was stupid =p

There is a new thread, or so it seems, maybe I am mistaken. It seems to be popular anyway

now close this one too because I wasted 5 mins of my life reading spam

Since we're being anal.

7. No spamming
Spamming is defined as the following:

- Multiple topic spam: To create a thread when another thread on a similar topic already exists.
- Thread bumping: Posting in threads that have been inactive for some time.

Technically, we can never talk about Mafia again.  Every thread that talks about mafia is too old to post in, but since those threads exist, it is against the rules to open a new thread.