An Admin Rant

[Spongebob]

And why is necroposting bad?

From an objective perspective, it just isn't.

This is not about whether it’s good or bad. It’s about that it isn’t allowed.

Boru

Um, why not?  I think its a fair question.  What's the harm?  Why is it not allowed?

I participated on a forum for over a decade and what you call "necroposting" was not prohibited or even discouraged.  I never saw problems arise from this policy.  A few times people would do it and some old members would post a comment that this subject was dead and then ignore it, but sometimes it would revive an old debate.  I think there is one option that you could employ that would require zero argument, just close the thread.  Although, if someone comments on an old thread and others see the revival as irrelevant, won't they ignore it?

[zwanzig]

And for good reason.

Sometimes. Sometimes the things people want to do are not fair or good for the rest of the community.

It's hardly a chain to say "make a new thread" so I'm not really commiserating with the injustice and outrage over not being allowed to necropost.

[onlinebiker]

People just have a really hard time anywhere there are rules that impede them from doing what they wanna do.

And for good reason.

Their house - their rules...


Gotta problem with that?

[Ranjr]

On many forums, reviving an existing thread is preferable to starting a new one on the same topic.  Maybe that's why people do it.

Elsewhere, intro threads are discouraged because no one cares. 

As for reading rules, blah blah, look, a squirrel, check box.  If I had an attention span, I wouldn't be here.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Roll your little goth girl eyes all you want, but we have rules and expect members to follow them.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

This is not about whether it’s good or bad. It’s about that it isn’t allowed.

Boru

Um, why not?  I think its a fair question.  What's the harm?  Why is it not allowed?

I participated on a forum for over a decade and what you call "necroposting" was not prohibited or even discouraged.  I never saw problems arise from this policy.  A few times people would do it and some old members would post a comment that this subject was dead and then ignore it, but sometimes it would revive an old debate.  I think there is one option that you could employ that would require zero argument, just close the thread.  Although, if someone comments on an old thread and others see the revival as irrelevant, won't they ignore it?

Bold mine. 

You’re free to return to that forum, or to find another one that doesn’t have this rule.

Boru

[Spongebob]

Bold mine. 

You’re free to return to that forum, or to find another one that doesn’t have this rule.

Boru

Wow, what a way to make someone feel welcome.  Open-mindedness is obviously not a virtue here.

[Foxaèr]

Wow, what a way to make someone feel welcome.  Open-mindedness is obviously not a virtue here.

Well, you know, necroposting is so~ bad it's liable to result in world war III.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Bold mine. 

You’re free to return to that forum, or to find another one that doesn’t have this rule.

Boru

Wow, what a way to make someone feel welcome.  Open-mindedness is obviously not a virtue here.

We also have rules against spam, sock accounts, trolling, hate speech, etc. Whether other forums have these rules is completely immaterial to what goes on here, so it’s rather pointless to bring them up. 

While no one is required to like AF rules (I object to some of them myself), we’re all required to follow them.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Wow, what a way to make someone feel welcome.  Open-mindedness is obviously not a virtue here.

Well, you know, necroposting is so~ bad it's liable to result in world war III.

Thank you, Brian37, but - again - this isn’t about the merits of necroposting.

Boru