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[Skyrunner]

Just a random question here. Why do many forums dislike thread necromancy and often lock the offending threads? I can't understand why... One forum I've went to strangely tells you to 'not necromance' and also 'use existing threads' but locks threads that are raised from the dead even if it was for consolidation of threads >.>

--Confused Skyru

[alway]

For a thread to die, it must have reached a point at which all involved in the discussion became so uninterested in continuing it that they just stopped. Thus having someone a year later dig it back up, often starting exactly where everyone left off and often expecting or implying they want a response from the same people originally involved in the thread is both annoying to those who stopped posting as well as the annoyance of taking up space on the first few pages which would be better occupied by more relevant discussions.

[kaijyuu]

Rarely does the bumper have anything relevant to add.


Personally I'm fine with thread necromancy if it serves a point. See: The adventure time thread being bumped after ~3 months of inactivity.

[Flying Dice]

Yep. Threads in which the necro is welcome/adds something new generally stay up. But when someone bumps a year-old thread to essentially say "I concur", it isn't unreasonable for people to be annoyed, especially if there were negative thoughts or emotions tied up in a debate that was eventually dropped.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Indeed, there are plenty of times in which one can bring up an old thread for good reasons. For example, I brought up my "Shit, let's be X" thread two or three times after it died because I found new and interesting polls to yell at each other over, and it went on for 30 or so more pages before dying again.

[IronyOwl]

Also, even if there's a legitimate reason to necro a thread, it's often better to just have a clean start at it. There's no particular reason any and all discussion of a thing needs to go in the same ancient, unwieldy thread that was devoted to it in ancient times by a people long since vanished.

[Yoink]

Okay, discussion over, everyone stop posting and we'll necro this a year from now.

[Capntastic]

A young student dared to ask a question of their aged and learned master:  "Is it not a right action to do a bad thing if the good outweighs the bad?"

The master replied:  "One who need ask that is not an accurate scale for such things."

[Furtuka]

       I've found it to be quite ridiculous how angry people get over these things. I mean its partially understandable when it's a topic for writing since a necro fools people into thinking a story updated, but the way people just get so angry and pile insults and hate upon the people who did that is just so petty and unreasonable in my opinion. I am really glad that don't really care about it that much over here. If it didn't, we wouldn't have the schrodinger's Elves of Amanereli.

[Jervous]

How do people necromancify threads anyway? It's like they're intentionally going through the archives, searching for the perfect thing to raise from the dead for basically no reason, knowing that nobody really cares anymore. They'd find their topic- tens and hundreds of years old. Cobwebs and bones litter the posts and the references and jokes have long since become unfunny. The OP itself tells of an age long forgotten, a story worth telling at the time but no longer holds it's value. The necromancer looks upon these crumbling posts and then eagerly writes their post...

"LOL, nice job!"

[Loud Whispers]

-snip-

Someone posts in a topic, goes offline for quite a while. In the mean time, that thread evolves into a long discussion lasting several pages, until it reaches the final station and all depart.

Then that one person left on the train wakes up, not realizing the time and restarts the train when it's already on the end of the tracks.

[kaenneth]

Also, people who actually use the search function.

[Loud Whispers]

Argh, people who don't use the search bar.

[lordcooper]

Because this is the internet, a nation populated almost exclusively by socially backwards assholes.  I've observed many instances of a person getting enraged by someone necro-ing a thread, then going on to list a plethora of threads another person should have necroed instead of starting a new one.  It's all a bit pathetic really.

[Flying Dice]

Note to self: necro this thread in a year.