Public Service Anouncement: Posting in long-inactive topics

[Sionnach Glic]

Yeah, something like that.

[Mark]

That's the for ya

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

I will admit, I never did and probably never will understand why thread-necroing is so bad. *Shrugs* To me, it's more annoying to create a new thread-takes up more bandwidth and is derivative. But, that's me.

[Mikey]

It's not inherently evil - it's just this: You look at a thread that hasn't been active for 6 months. It's new to you, so you come up with a witty, salient, and insightful comment, and you post it. Now I see a new comment and go look, but I have no idea to what your comment refers, because I haven't seen the preceding dialog for 6 months.

[Grundig]

Mikey, you may have just created a causality loop by waiting so long to reply to this topic.

[Sionnach Glic]

Huh? He only responded a few hours after the other guy.

[Grundig]

Oh. Well then. I guess the irony was too good to be true

[Sionnach Glic]

Pretty much.

[Mikey]

Mikey, you may have just created a causality loop by waiting so long to reply to this topic.

by RK_Striker_JK_5 on Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:20 am

by RK_Striker_JK_5 on Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:20 am

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

It's not inherently evil - it's just this: You look at a thread that hasn't been active for 6 months. It's new to you, so you come up with a witty, salient, and insightful comment, and you post it. Now I see a new comment and go look, but I have no idea to what your comment refers, because I haven't seen the preceding dialog for 6 months.

Okay... although usually I just reread the last few pages or so. *Shrugs* And on other forums, I've seen people post topics and other posters put up "We've got a thread for that right here!" or something like that. So it's 6 of one, half a dozen of the other it seems.

[Sionnach Glic]

Not all of us particularly want to have to read back through a year old thread just to figure out what one comment meant. If it's new information on the topic that hasn't been brought up before, then simply creating a thread and saying "Hey, I was looking over that old thread about X when I realised that no one had mentioned Y." is far easier.

[Deepcrush]

Seems silly to start a new thread over something that we already have a thread about.

Like Bush giving himself a bonus because he gave himself one last year.

That wacky guy!

[Mark]

[Deepcrush]

That and brand new transportation for himself. New armored cars, SUVs and a few helicopters and a remodel of Air Force 1. Good thing that US troops aren't in need of ammo, body armor or armored transports or armor plated Hummers themselves right!

[Captain Picard's Hair]

Post by Mikey on Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:55 pm

It was the right time of year for dead threads to return to life and haunt us...