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I was so hoping this thread was an old necro thread from years ago...

I challenge someone to revive this thread in a couple of years!

Necro posts are not bad if they add new information that is relevant.

These discussions are indexed by google searches and people looking for answers have a better shot at getting better information.

Bad necro posts are people who post "thanks" for an answer to bump it... people shouldn't do that... that will get it locked. If the answer isn't likely to change that is fine though.

Originally posted by AdahnGorion:

Originally posted by AD:

I was so hoping this thread was an old necro thread from years ago...

I challenge someone to revive this thread in a couple of years!

Necro posting has nothing to do with age, it has to do with relevance.

Then I challenge someone to revive this a year or two after it's irrelevant!

No, there are times when i play a boomer-äss game from the stone ages and i run into a glitch or a hard progress blocker and i just can't find a solution on the old forums;

BUT there are sometimes threads that got necroed 10 years later, and there is usually that 1 mädäfäkér who says "i tried this-that and this, none of those solution worked, here is the stuff you need to do to progress further" - that's the man that you listen to, and i just can't see that as a negative

Lore discussions about a game age slowly, and other discussions that have a long expiry on their relevance may as well keep going.

Originally posted by Sex Alarm:

Is there ever a time or reason when necroing an old thread is actually useful/helpful? Or should all necros automatically be locked?

No. Oftentimes times old post get revived for legitimate reasons, mainly ones that are relevant to technical issue. So do don't like it when mods lock old threads that get necroposted for legit reasons.

Those threads can be a good historic reference in one place.

I wouldn’t say it’s bad if it’s still relevant.

Things can change within 1 year. Like the time I revived a thread just to call someone out for what he said a year ago just to prove him wrong.

“I sure hope someone picks up that phone because I ****ing called it!!!”

Originally posted by Wraith:

Originally posted by GunsForBucks:

Necro posts are not bad if they add new information that is relevant.

These discussions are indexed by google searches and people looking for answers have a better shot at getting better information.

Bad necro posts are people who post "thanks" for an answer to bump it... people shouldn't do that... that will get it locked. If the answer isn't likely to change that is fine though.

What if that bumping lead to more relevant answers? Maybe something doesn't work the same way anymore, and another user will explain how it works currently.

But if the answer was correct there is nothing you should add.

Just posting "thanks" will only get it locked

If someone has an update that is when it should be bumped.

I know what you are saying, but necro posting would just be abused more than it is now if it wasn't like this.

People necro post just to hide stuff they don't want to see at times. Locking them is the only way to control this.

Actually people who necro post for the lulz then delete their own post to hide they bumped it should probably get warned against doing that by the mods.

No it can be good for example a discussion about something niche for example a game or a tv show or a book that are not well known but good more people canm be exposed to it with necro posting which is a good thing, and I do not see too many reasons from the reader point of view to lock old discussions, but I believe that it is probably just something that moderators and administrators of a forum do for their own convenience? Like for example it makes their work easier maybe? I don't know, I could understand a reason like this but from a user point of view I don't know I don't mind old discussion I don't think there is any valid reasonì, from this point of view, to be locked... so I have always assumed that it was just to make the work of admins and mods easier or something like that.

I don't mind them. I use them as a game to spot the necro. But many people get uptight and offended and try to regulate the forums with rules. That's the Mod's job.

Originally posted by Sex Alarm:

Is there ever a time or reason when necroing an old thread is actually useful/helpful? Or should all necros automatically be locked?

No, they aren't always bad. Depends on the information added to the topic.

It is very hard to find a happy medium around here as I have seen both people complaining about a thread being necroed AND someone being told there is already a topic about this/go post there.

Personally I would just make a new topic (not that I have made any topics here yet that I remember) and if people are entering it just to tell me to do it elsewhere they have bigger issues than telling me that. Just report it and move on instead of injecting your attitude into a topic.

Personally I think a topic past a certain date should be deleted unless it is stickied just to put a stop to the arguing about it. Saves us all the time and trouble the ensuing insanity that comes along with it.

Nah it’s funny