Necroing this thread before October is completely pointless.
[sigh] The OP was started by LavaLevel and his last post on this thread was May 16. Personally, I do
not consider that old enough to be a "necro", even if LavaLevel's post was the most recent (which it is not). In fact, if you look carefully, you'll see that posts on this thread have been semi-regular since then, with at least one post a week.
I think the confusion about posting to this thread being called "necro" is due to this post:
*necros with fancy powers from the future*
He claimed his own post was a necro, but it had only been
two days since someone had posted. Obviously, that was
not a necro.
As for the validity of posting here (even before October), I can think of several reasons for doing so:
1) To provide
encouragement to LavaLevel to let him know that we really want to see his Boatmurdered animation finished.
2) To provide suggestions to LavaLevel for this animation.
3) To discuss the legend that is Boatmurdered.
4) To discuss ideas about or the merits of turning a specific DF LP or succession story into an animated film.
To be fair, there might be some who would consider 3) or 4) to be slightly off topic. But, apparently, many posters here do not and the OP never complained about it.
I'm curious: If posting in this thread "bothers people"... why?