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CaroleTucson
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31 May 2013, 10:13 am

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Some of them are 2, 3, 5 or even 7 years old. Chances are the original poster has left the site, or doesn't give a sh** about the topic anymore.
And Steve Irwin's been dead 7 years.

What an arrogant and shortsighted attitude. Many, many topics on this site are not time-dependent in the least. Why shouldn't they be "resurrected", if someone new finds them applicable?

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31 May 2013, 10:36 am

I like resurrecting old posts. Past people often had good insights.

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31 May 2013, 10:52 am

What??? Steve Irwin's been gone that long? Wow... :cry:

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31 May 2013, 11:45 am

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But sometimes new members might want to read all 1070 pages of WP general discussion, then reply to old threads from years ago, like the nose-picking one that someone should resurrect again, my favorite thread on WP.

There was a thread on nose-picking? Cool! Off we go to use the search function...

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31 May 2013, 12:09 pm

opal wrote:

Some of them are 2, 3, 5 or even 7 years old. Chances are the original poster has left the site, or doesn't give a sh** about the topic anymore.
And Steve Irwin's been dead 7 years.

I agree with you.

What annoys me more is the most mundane type of threads get bumped or just get tons of pages of replies, and some members create really interesting original topics that die after about a day and never get bumped again.

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31 May 2013, 12:40 pm

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What annoys me more is the most mundane type of threads get bumped or just get tons of pages of replies, and some members create really interesting original topics that die after about a day and never get bumped again.

Perhaps some people would revive some of those if they weren’t going to be chewed off for “thread necromancy”.

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31 May 2013, 12:45 pm

I forgot about the nose picking one. I searched it and saw I had replied in it.

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31 May 2013, 3:35 pm

CaroleTucson wrote:

opal wrote:

Some of them are 2, 3, 5 or even 7 years old. Chances are the original poster has left the site, or doesn't give a sh** about the topic anymore.
And Steve Irwin's been dead 7 years.

What an arrogant and shortsighted attitude. Many, many topics on this site are not time-dependent in the least. Why shouldn't they be "resurrected", if someone new finds them applicable?

Right back at you

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31 May 2013, 3:39 pm

This website came up last week (not sure if the episode was a rerun) on a crime show. I'm not going to name the user name, but I've been hoping the posts they made didn't pop up again.

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31 May 2013, 3:48 pm

Adamantium wrote:

opal wrote:

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I think there is a difference between threads that should be allowed to Rest In Peace and ones worthy for Re-Animation. I'm not going to attempt to define where the line be drawn.

One thing that bugs me is Ghost Posts, the ones where the OP seems to disappear and then pop up again somewhere else, or am I just too Old School?

I think you are quite correct there Neilson and I have just realised one reason why this bothers me so much. In the past a couple of really old posts were resurrected where the OP or contributing poster had since taken their life. It may have even been a quite innoccuous post/thread but I found it really unnerving and quite sad at the time to see their avatar and their thoughts and feelings from long ago. so sorry if some people found my response over the top but I really think out of respect that some things should be left in the past.

That's a very heavy and loaded situation. I have seen other communities (notably the alternative Christian site Ship of Fools) where the mods are very active in locking those threads and did create a special board for the memorable and powerful threads--one that I recall involved a terminally ill member and included their final posts, comments by their closest survivors and tributes from the community. That can work, if there is that kind of community of moderators.

They would also just lock old posts to prevent the Steve Irwin thing from taking over the boards.

But there also has to be some balance between the old community members saying "We've seen all this before" and newcomers who have seen none of it before and are full of questions.

Opal I'm sorry for my poor attempts at humour, that thought had not occurred.

It seems like there is only 2 and 1/2 active moderators for this whole site, and one of those is on the verge of leaving according to a recent post. It's not surprising that they are over whelmed. So more support for them and more autonomous management for the rest of us.

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31 May 2013, 3:49 pm

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This website came up last week (not sure if the episode was a rerun) on a crime show. I'm not going to name the user name, but I've been hoping the posts they made didn't pop up again.

Why?

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31 May 2013, 3:52 pm

Because if a person dug up those threads it might be for a salacious reason.

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31 May 2013, 3:55 pm

Popsicle wrote:

This website came up last week (not sure if the episode was a rerun) on a crime show. I'm not going to name the user name, but I've been hoping the posts they made didn't pop up again.

You have got a funny way of trying to keep a lid on it, if you don't mind me saying.

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31 May 2013, 3:56 pm

There's no way without my saying more, that it matters. Out of the tens of thousands of posts I doubt anyone would guess which it is.

I mentioned it because people were talking about various reasons a necrothread could be good or bad.

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31 May 2013, 4:06 pm

So you are just teasing then?

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31 May 2013, 4:08 pm

No I wasn't teasing. I said from the start that I was not going to say the user name.

I was adding to the discussion or so I thought.

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