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[Imic]

Commence discussions!
If you want to.

[Fleeting Frames]

ETHIC: ONLY_IF_RELEVANT

[Sanctume]

Just let it sleep in 7/7

[milo christiansen]

[ETHIC:NECROTHREADING:JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON]

[DMT]

Threadomancer

[ldog]

Marked, so I can remember to come back and necro it a few months from now
- Your friendly neighborhood necromancer

[DMT]

Marked, so I can remember to come back and necro it a few months from now
- Your friendly neighborhood necromancer

Thanks, we're all counting on you

[Linkxsc]

I dunno. Theres plenty of forums i frequent where people get prissy if you nevro a thread even 2 weeks old.

Meanwhile they also get bitchy if you try and start a new thread on the same topic as a thread a year or so old because "God weve already talked about this. There must be absolutely nothing else to say".

Personally. Id rather a degree of necromancy instead of spamming the same topics over and over.

[ldog]

I dunno. Theres plenty of forums i frequent where people get prissy if you nevro a thread even 2 weeks old.

Meanwhile they also get bitchy if you try and start a new thread on the same topic as a thread a year or so old because "God weve already talked about this. There must be absolutely nothing else to say".

Personally. Id rather a degree of necromancy instead of spamming the same topics over and over.

Yeah, damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's a Dwarf's life I tell ya!

So I tend to necro my own posts around here cause we've had some good discussions, they're full of good advice that is would be a shame to lose (especially my own ) and I want to see if issue has been resolved/anything new without a whole lot of 'splaining myself again.

In another forum I frequent we've had a bunch of just absent-minded necroing lately (I'm not the culprit I swear ), but it has been surprisingly interesting to me to see some long dead topic that I posted as a noob asking for advice vs my own advice on said topic today.

[ApatheticExcuse]

1. I've never understood why people care if someone necro's a ten year old thread or whatever. Don't read it if you don't want to, really. It's not like the thread has actually come back from the dead and is chasing you relentlessly, bashing through your every barricade, eating all your ammo and still getting back up, and never resting until you're forced to look at it.

Or do whatever causes the problem some people have with old threads coming back. I don't personally get it.

2. This thread however, is kinda pointless.

[Sanctume]

I now regret that I posted to this. 

One reason I would not like necro threading is once I posted, I can never delete my post.
So stuff shows up in my list of "Show new replies to your posts."

[DMT]

I just seemed to have necro'd a thread from 2007 on here, who cares about this?

[Sanctume]

Don't care much either way.  There's reddit regardless.

[Goatmaan]

I do like the April 1st necro, but could care less about any others. 

  Goatmaan

[TC]

If I understand correctly, "necrothreading" means posting a new message to an old thread, and this thread is inviting discussion on whether that's okay or not. I'm not familiar with the necrothreading debate, and I'm curious why people care about it at all. Can anyone take a moment to explain the conventional wisdom pros and cons on the subject?

The only points I see so far are: Linkxsc gave a point in favor of necrothreading, saying that allowing posts on old threads prevents "spamming the same topics over and over", and Sanctume gave a point against necrothreading, explaining that when people necrothread, he gets stuff showing up in his list of "Show new replies to your posts" (although this sounds more like an objection to the forum notification system, and not an objection to necrothreading per se). Is there more depth to the debate than this?