I never understood why forum admins hated this so much. If I have an update to an old issue, why shouldn’t I post it in the same place? Why create a whole new thread?
I’ve seen fora so ADHD they lock threads after a month or something. This is comical, given I work in deployment and management of enterprise OSes, which typically lock versions as maintenance branches at the start of their support window. Solaris10 will die after a TWENTY-SEVEN YEAR support window, but it’s typically a decade.
But if “necroing” is to update a thread after an arbitrarily-short time, and if people get banned for it, then the admins of that forum are naive and stupid. The way I solved a problem with my TheForeman installation (what junk) a few months ago leveraged something from 20 years ago.
I’m a fan of usenet’s “comp” tree, anyway. Forum threading has always come off as weird, and the format has always seemed a little emoji-heavy.
You have to register before you can download files.
You register, login, download the file… And then you never see that forum in your life because you only had this one difficult problem with the device or it breaks completely and you buy a different brand.
I think it depends on the forum. On the forum I am, there is no search timeout and necroposting is allowed as long as you bring something relevant to the discussion. And if you accidentaly create a new post that should have been somewhere else, the post is simply moved there.
Posts a problem on a thread
PLEASE SEARCH BEFORE YOU ASK A QUESTION. THREAD HAS BEEN CLOSED, HERES A LINK TO THE RULES
searches with incorrect wording or phrasing and tries again
PLEASE WAIT 30 SECONDS BEFORE SEARCHING AGAIN
Finds tangentially related thread but not quite your problem and posts to it to see if anyone has had similar issues
BANNED FOR NECROING
extra points if you do it through facepunch
I never understood why forum admins hated this so much. If I have an update to an old issue, why shouldn’t I post it in the same place? Why create a whole new thread?
I’ve seen fora so ADHD they lock threads after a month or something. This is comical, given I work in deployment and management of enterprise OSes, which typically lock versions as maintenance branches at the start of their support window. Solaris10 will die after a TWENTY-SEVEN YEAR support window, but it’s typically a decade.
But if “necroing” is to update a thread after an arbitrarily-short time, and if people get banned for it, then the admins of that forum are naive and stupid. The way I solved a problem with my TheForeman installation (what junk) a few months ago leveraged something from 20 years ago.
I’m a fan of usenet’s “comp” tree, anyway. Forum threading has always come off as weird, and the format has always seemed a little emoji-heavy.
The solution: download this file and flash it
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You have to register before you can download files.
You register, login, download the file… And then you never see that forum in your life because you only had this one difficult problem with the device or it breaks completely and you buy a different brand.
I think it depends on the forum. On the forum I am, there is no search timeout and necroposting is allowed as long as you bring something relevant to the discussion. And if you accidentaly create a new post that should have been somewhere else, the post is simply moved there.
That’s when you become a forum troll like Shrek