Is it weird? Is it rude? Should threads be archived?
I don’t care, I post when I have something to say.
I hope we have threads stay alive for years
If the thread is still relevant - post away!
this was how it worked on forums back in the day, no? i see it as a revival of a good thing
I love notifications about replies to the old stuff as it means that the internet has slowed down and new and shining isn’t as appealing as old stuff.
I do too! I mean notifications of replies are always a shot of dopamine no matter how old.
That reminds me there’s this dude who replied to a pic I posted with “Can use this as an album cover?” I said sure and he said “Cool see me in a year”. I replied a year later “How’s that album coming along?” and was like “give me another year” lol. It’s almost been two years now. Gonna check in again soon.
It is a holdover from the old forum days when adding a comment would pop a thread to the top of the front page, so someone going through and commenting on multiple old posts would flood the front page with outdated discussions. Generally those people would also post worthless comments, like ‘Thanks’, that didn’t add anything.
Now that we have more ways to sort the underlying problem is no longer relevant, but some people still hold on to that mindset. Some people who weren’t around for the older forums may have caught the disdain from others, or could even just have it in their minds that discussions always have limited time frames for whatever reason.
I don’t care unless someone relies to my comment to continue some stupid argument they started four months ago.
Oh I didn’t know that! I didn’t grow up on forums but I used them a few times here and there. You’re right new replies do push a thread to the top. Kind of a bad design lol.
It was a great design when the intent was to make new discussion visible. It was great for reviving threads when new and prodictive discussion was added!
Like any design, there will be cases where it doesn’t work as intended. It is hard to design around people adding non-productive comments.
Fair point
There’s only one forum I visit nowadays and it gets older threads revived every now and then. Usually to say “Whatever happened to that? Is it done yet?”
Thanks.
Depends on the type of community, forums it’s potentially disruptive since it bumps it to the top. Redsit/Lemmy style it matters less.
I certainly would advocate against archiving Lemmy posts in a way that “locks” them, I can’t tell you how many times an old reddit post shows up in a search result and helpful newer replies with the most recent information is still getting added sporadically.
I get comments on months old posts, I’m fine with it since it will help future users
If the person is looking for a discussion (ex. They need help with the software I posted about), then it’s usually better they make a new post
do whatever you want, who’s going to stop you the thread police?
I think people call it deadposting. I’ve heard someone be like “Sorry for deadposting” so I thought if they’re apologizing it must be frowned upon.
Someone made a rude comment to me because I was looking for information regarding an interest. No one else replied. I shook it off and kept looking.
Depends on what the thread was about. If it’s a technical thread, and if you have something to contribute that might help someone in the future with that issure, go ahead. Most of the rest of the time, it’s just bad form.
If it’s relevant for future people who found the thread the same way I did, sure. It’s like of you were looking for a treasure in a network of caves, and you see writing in the wall from previous treasure seekers saying “beware of bats.” If I add “left cave has dragon” it might help someone else.
Also, if the OP or other accounts are still active, they might get still a notification.
Oh like dark souls lol.
I was thinking more like the end of Month Python and the Holy Grail, but sure.
If it’s a question that has no answer (or no useful answer) it’s totally fine to comment with an answer.
I figure that someone will eventually stumble across the same thread that I did if they have a similar question. Might as well contribute and share some knowledge.
My favorite was a specific problem I had modding Morrowind on Linux years ago and posting to reddit.
Only for years to pass and I search for the same problem, only to find my own damn post with no replies.
If it provides me information I need… I’ll thank the poster.
I’ve commented a thank you a literal decade after the helpful comment was made.
When I was on reddit… If the thread was archived, I’d copy the link and send the person a message saying thanks. If it was very helpful.
I don’t have a problem with it obviously. Back in the day being a thread necromancer was frowned upon. Now, it doesn’t bump the thread to the top of the forum, so who cares
What did you see DenverCoder9?
Haha man that’s so accurate.
Back in the day being a thread necromancer was frowned upon. Now, it doesn’t bump the thread to the top of the forum, so who cares
I never even saw the problem back then. If new info made the thread relevant again (even if it was just that someone new had something to say), it was fine with me to see a thread pop back up to the top.
Agreed. But you know how some power tripping folk can be. :/
Reminds me of the flame wars in newsgroups about whether top-posting or bottom-posting (quote after or before reply) was holier.
Even on reddit I’d get replies to years old comments. I remember one user watching Breaking Bad and reading the old response threads and engaging with me from there.
I don’t mind at all, especially as I’m trying to be uplifting with my comments.
I never understood the taboo.
It’s a holdover from old BBS forum style.
When you reply to an ancient thread, it immediately gets pushed to the top of the board. Now everyone basically is wondering what this 5 year old topic is doing on the first page. And they might have to read through several pages of messages to understand what the hell the newest reply is about because nobody remembers the topic in the first place.
With Reddit/Lemmy, the upvote system means it really doesn’t matter at all if you reply to an ancient thread, it won’t jump to the front page for anyone.
Ah yes, that would have been annoying. I started in the era of small web forums where activity was split out from recency by page or dialog.
Me neither, but someone commented here it’s a holdover from the days of forums where a new reply to an old thread would instantly put that thread at the top of the forums because the order was always latest reply. This was found annoying by some people especially if the new reply was short and meaningless or something. Makes more sense to me now.
I’ll let you know in a year.
We had the opportunity to do something really funny, here
You still can if you come back in 5 years
Not if we keep this thread alive.
In memory of the lost ones: *Bump
The wording had initially confused me.
I thought this was about posts that got no comments, not about necro’ing posts.
Honestly, I think necro’ing posts is really only a problem when your forum software doesn’t have many options for sorting the feed. Lemmy is more advanced; if you don’t like necro’d posts, then just don’t sort by recent activity.
