Are You A Thread Necromancer?

[MasonC2K]

If so, please clear something up for me?

Why do you do it?

If a thread has not had a reply for months or even years, why reply to it now?

I see this behavior on every forum I've ever gone to. It doesn't happen a lot here but I have seen it. There's one over in the python forum now that was resurrected by LukeWild1982 on 1/6/2009 that was last replied to on 1/22/2007 -- http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=35465

It can't be a mistake. The dates are pretty obvious. The only way you even got the post was using a search function or going back in the archive manually. So you know it's an old post.

I've never understood this. So if you are into thread resurrection, please explain why?

Thanks.

[PythonWallace]

I don't usually do it, but I resurrected a two year old thread yeaterday on the fauna BOI. I did a search for J.W. Exotics to see if anything came up and it was a bad guy post for a guy named Joshua Wright, who's email was jwexotics@aol.com. I didn't like the fact that anyone doing a search for my business gets a bad guy thread for some dude who ripped someone off two years ago. Other than that, it bothers me, too.

[Rejekt]

i dont do this, but i think a good reason is if someone searchign a forum for a certain topic and dosent find exactly it or finds something but they need more info on it then they could post in that topic and ask a similar question like if someone asks about a UTH in a wood enclosure and they cant find it anywhere but they find a thread from 3 years agho about putting one in a plastic enclosure, they may decide instead of making a new thread just to post a reply in that one and ask. but im not entirely sure. //
on the otherhand people who research 1+year old topics and jus tsay haha or lol or thats funny or somethign of the sort. thats kind of pointless imo. but to each their own.

[hoax]

I bring up old threads once in a while. At first I thought you were talking about me because I just brought up an old thread in QT. I was trying to find a video of some red head.... It was a worthy cause.

Mike

[littleindiangirl]

Because we have a lovely search function that answers a LOT of questions for newbies!

People just can never be happy. "Go SEARCH for your answer!" "Don't post in threads older than a week!!!"

My two cents, get over it! You aint paying for it!

[Bruce Whitehead]

I resurected a thread once... I went to click "next page"... accidentally clicked a page # in the list.

Saw a thread, read it, responded to it, closed my browser and walked away... YIKES!!! Another member almost DIED!!! Seriously, it caused her immense distress and I felt I would need to pay her damages for it.

Another time... I logged in, there was a thread in my "portal"... answered it.

Again, pandemonium ensued. Little did I know it was a year old poll that had never been closed. Someone voted on it. It was bumped up. I did not read the date.

So much drama. So... much... drama...

Bruce

[ThyTempest]

Because we have a lovely search function that answers a LOT of questions for newbies!

People just can never be happy. "Go SEARCH for your answer!" "Don't post in threads older than a week!!!"

My two cents, get over it! You aint paying for it!

Lol.

I admit I raised a few dead spirits in my noobness to bp.net. In other forums that I was active in, they gave away prizes to whoever raised the "marked" year+old thread. Habit never died despite the fact that I know no good comes out of it, usually.

[Bruce Whitehead]

YIKES!!! Another member almost DIED!!!

I guess my point was. *clears throat*

DOES(!!!) someone need to DIE before you thread bumper upper to the toppie of page people learn your lesson!

I do not want to be responsible for that.

[nixer]

some is ok but to bring something back to post more or to argue something is getting really old

[hoax]

I resurected a thread once... I went to click "next page"... accidentally clicked a page # in the list.

Saw a thread, read it, responded to it, closed my browser and walked away... YIKES!!! Another member almost DIED!!! Seriously, it caused her immense distress and I felt I would need to pay her damages for it.

Another time... I logged in, there was a thread in my "portal"... answered it.

Again, pandemonium ensued. Little did I know it was a year old poll that had never been closed. Someone voted on it. It was bumped up. I did not read the date.

So much drama. So... much... drama...

Bruce

I guess my point was. *clears throat*

DOES(!!!) someone need to DIE before you thread bumper upper to the toppie of page people learn your lesson!

I do not want to be responsible for that.

Bruce why do you have to be so violent with your sarcasm...

It is quite entertaining though