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But if people post on an "old" thread, others jump all over them for bringing it back up.
If anyone personally attacks a poster for reviving an old thread, they should be reported. Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with reviving an old thread if it's still viable and apropos. If you don't feel a revived thread is worth reading, simply move on to another thread.
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If anyone personally attacks a poster for reviving an old thread, they should be reported. Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with reviving an old thread if it's still viable and apropos. If you don't feel a revived thread is worth reading, simply move on to another thread.
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No fair! You're using common sense and reasonableness!
My thing about reviving old threads is that many times advice is given to the op who most likely moved on long long time ago. So before reviving old thread...make sure its worth it.
The amount of zombie threads on these forums is astounding. Why don't we automatically close any thread with no posts for 12 consecutive months?
Why should we ? Seriously.
In theory, local threads are about local issues, many of them recurring issues. Posts spanning several years give a unique perspective on how things changed, it is often quite valuable, and you don't have to dig through a separate archive to find it.
Generally we don't mind "thread necromancy" under one condition: the resurrecting post actually contributes to the topic. Adds new informations, shares some valuable insight. Simply bumping up a long dead topic to say "I agree" or to quote a long banned member and fight him/her over opinions that should long be forgotten .. that's not ok. In fact, it can theoretically even earn the bumping person an infraction, though I'd say ~98% of times when I come across a bump like this, it ends with a warning.
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The amount of zombie threads on these forums is astounding. Why don't we automatically close any thread with no posts for 12 consecutive months?
What about 36 months or even 48 months. And some clickable link at the top of a forum that lets people look at threads older than that. The link to older would have to keep up with the 48 months old as more time went by so such a link would require some technical know how.
My thing about reviving old threads is that many times advice is given to the op who most likely moved on long long time ago. So before reviving old thread...make sure its worth it.
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