NECROPOSTING - DON'T DO IT

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NECROPOSTING - DON'T DO IT

Post by dwchang » Mon Apr 28, 2003 11:33 am

I thought I'd just get this out, since a lot of necroposting has been going on just these last few days. I'm hoping it'll help and n00bs just MIGHT stop doing it. Then again, they probably won't read this.

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Necropost: to post to a thread whose last reply was over a month ago. Other members find it quite annoying.

I've seen this at least five times in the last two days and it's getting a little annoying. You'll be forgiven, but you'll still annoy a lot of people on the boards.

To all new forum members, please look at the date of the last reply before posting. Now of course, you're free to reply regardless, but for the sake of courtesy, other members find it quite annoying when a 'dead' topic is brought back to life (hence "necro"posting) when the issue or question has been answered.

I do apologize for having to make a thread out of it, but...well...I'm getting annoyed (as I'm sure some of you are).
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Post by MrScribble » Mon Apr 28, 2003 11:57 am

That sort of conflicts with the "OMG theres allready 5 threads like this so use those!!!11!" rule people keep shouting around here.

Nobody forces you to read threads anyway.
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Re: NECROPOSTING - DON'T DO IT

Post by Propyro » Mon Apr 28, 2003 2:10 pm

dwchang wrote: I've seen this at least five times in the last two days and it's getting a little annoying. You'll be forgiven, but you'll still annoy a lot of people on the boards.
ok ... Sorry ... i won't do it agian ... :cry:

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Re: NECROPOSTING - DON'T DO IT

Post by dwchang » Mon Apr 28, 2003 2:14 pm

Propyro wrote:
dwchang wrote: I've seen this at least five times in the last two days and it's getting a little annoying. You'll be forgiven, but you'll still annoy a lot of people on the boards.
ok ... Sorry ... i won't do it agian ... :cry:
Nah, it's not you...although you do reply which doesnt help :-P.
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Post by Propyro » Mon Apr 28, 2003 2:22 pm

Dwchang wrote:Nah, it's not you...although you do reply which doesnt help .

well deep down in there somewhere there was some sarcasm imbeded in that post. But yea, i usualy don't help very much, but thats only after the topics already been revived ... i try to avoid actualy doing the necromancers job on this forum, on the off topic forum i may judt bring up some anchient thread for the hell of it.

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Post by (NERD Studios) Arturo » Mon Apr 28, 2003 4:09 pm

Seems like a pretty insignificant thing to get annoyed over. No one is forcing you to read the "resurrected" topics. And this is a discussion forum. If someone want to discuss something old I don't see why they shouldn't be "allowed" to.
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Post by dwchang » Mon Apr 28, 2003 4:30 pm

(NERD Studios) Arturo wrote:Seems like a pretty insignificant thing to get annoyed over. No one is forcing you to read the "resurrected" topics. And this is a discussion forum. If someone want to discuss something old I don't see why they shouldn't be "allowed" to.
I never said they COULDN'T do it, but that it's frowned upon and again...annoying.

Of course, you are correct that I don't have to read it, but at the same time, it's really easy to just click on the topics...find a reply...begin to write your own and then look at the date...it's just a suggestion since I've noticed A) a lot of people have been doing it lately and B) I'm fairly sure I'm not the only one who gets annoyed by this.

It was just a friendly suggestion since well...it would improve things.
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Post by (NERD Studios) Arturo » Mon Apr 28, 2003 5:19 pm

Well, I'd never do it because my forum browsing is generally limited to clicking the "View posts since last visit" button and going from there.
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Post by AtomicWeezleman » Tue Apr 29, 2003 8:21 am

THOU SHALT NOT NECROPOST
THOU SHALT NOT ENCOURAGE NECROPOSTING

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Post by Savia » Tue Apr 29, 2003 1:00 pm

lol... I have an urge to wait until no-one posted in *this* thread for about 3 weeks, and then come back and post in it...
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