(December 31, 2020 at 8:54 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: I've never understood why necroposting is bad. Like, what harm does it do?
I'm not saying it shouldn't be a rule or anything. I just don't understand why it's bad.
A lot of forums are basically killing futuristic discussions because of their rule against necroposting and it has caused a decrease in quality support service when website owner(s), administrator(s), and moderator(s) lock threads or prevent people from talking in older threads. It has caused people to create forums that don't have a rule against necroposting to allow people to talk with each other more efficiently without having to worry about deadlines that make their threads locked or prevent people from talking to each other on older threads, especially when they want to add comments to make the older threads more interesting instead of having to make another thread.
I've never understood why necroposting is necessarily bad, either. Which is why I miss the past when forums weren't so strict with necroposting, especially when I was using forums for customer support service.
