Chupi September 20, 2012 Share September 20, 2012 People make good points. Just to be clear, reviving an old thread is fine so long as you have something reasonable to contribute. I've been seeing a fair deal of old threads being bumped with posts of questionable value, usually by new members. There's no official policy on this that I know of, since the posts are typically on-topic, just not worth bumping a two-month-old thread to say. I would say that bumping an old thread to contribute real information should be acceptable. For instance, if a thread asked a question that wasn't sufficiently answered, and you think you have an answer for it. An example of something that should be discouraged is if the poster is having a similar-but-not-really problem and a suitable answer isn't in the thread; better to create a new thread instead of reviving the old one. And "thank you, that worked" should just plain not be posted in a dead thread unless a "do not bump" checkbox were added. EDIT: I'm used to a couple forums where it's severely discouraged. Phi makes a good point -- it makes sense to allow here because of the type of discussion. As for obsolete advice, I would want to keep it for historical reasons rather than deleting. A reply saying it's obsolete may not work because a user might stop reading when they get to the seemingly good advice. Perhaps editing the bad-advice post to stick a "this is old, bad advice" warning at the top of it? Lyra: human female, ~17 Evan: boy, ~14, was an Eevee Anera: anime-style girl, ~12; Lyra made her My blog :: Time expectations are bad (forcing time targets are good though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker September 20, 2012 Share September 20, 2012 I will necro this thread once it dies. For great irony! But will it blend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous September 20, 2012 Share September 20, 2012 Good for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadoh September 20, 2012 Share September 20, 2012 >Necromancy OMGGG METAPHYZICS !!! MAGIKC ISNT REAL KEEP IT OUT My opinions are all subject to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QB2 September 20, 2012 Share September 20, 2012 >Necromancy OMGGG METAPHYZICS !!! MAGIKC ISNT REAL KEEP IT OUT The above post does not contain facts. q2's the host, QB's the tulpa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh September 20, 2012 Share September 20, 2012 What about off-topic threads? Does anyone really care about those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi September 20, 2012 Share September 20, 2012 I've never once thought about necroposting as something bad. Bumping with a "lol" in an old post is just as bad as bumping a new one with a "lol". There's really no difference. Even if the thread is old, it probably has academic value just like the new ones, so the worse that will probably happen is that somebody reads through an old question and gets an answer to that old question. I do understand the possibility that somebody bumps a thread that has an answer that is now considered 'wrong' or 'obsolete'. Those shouldn't be necroposted, and the moderation team should think about doing something, like deleting them, so no new user will read it and mistakenly use the information. Or the moderator could simple reply to the necro'd thread stating that the answer is now considered 'obsolete'. As for off-topic, progress reports, and the like, I couldn't care less about necroposting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glitchthe3rd September 20, 2012 Share September 20, 2012 This seemed like pretty standard practice on GameFAQs (which is the site I frequented before joining tulpa.info), and the mods never did anything about it. And afaik there are no rules against it here either, provided of course that the post used to bump the topic is constructive and doesn't just say "Bump" or something like that. That will get you modded, since bumping a topic is not constructive posting. "Science isn't about why, science is about why not?" -Cave Johnson Tulpae: Luna, Elise, Naomi My progress report Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadoh September 20, 2012 Share September 20, 2012 If something really shouldn't be bumped, it can just be closed, but not deleted. My opinions are all subject to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anonymous September 21, 2012 Share September 21, 2012 I don't want to post, but tfw no gf was requesred to be lockwd because it was answered and suddenly a new member posteds hit worse rhan my post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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