(November 15, 2020 at 1:34 pm)Ranjr Wrote: In the old days, back in the aughts, forums encouraged users to avoid starting new threads when there was an existing thread of the same topic. "Use the search feature," mods would say. I share Dundee's confusion though not his consternation.
This has always baffled me about all things forumy. I've seen people virtually foam at the mouth because someone does/doesn't necro a post. There seems to be no winning the internets. On this forum when you are about to post in an old thread there is a warning against that action. In almost all other online communities people will mock you for starting a new thread when the issue has already been addressed in another thread. This makes more sense because if you start a new thread you will most likely go through all the same beats as the old thread so people would rather you read through old threads to be familiar with the topic.
