Thread is Dead, or is it?

[StayPuft]

That's funny. I actually asked a similar question here when I first came around. I love this forum, and wanted to slowly pile through all of the old threads to see what, if anything, I wanted to discuss as well. However, I've been to other message boards where they very much frowned upon this sort of thing, getting annoyed if people dug up really old posts (necro-posting). Luckily, on this board, everybody is really cool and doesn't mind. I'm sure if you did it in a trollish way, like quickly digging up a bunch of old threads with just responses like "Cool," then people may not like that. But, they are very open to old discussions if you want to jump in.

Personally, I always thought that was really stupid when people get all bent out of shape about necro-posting. I mean, if a topic was fun to discuss before, then why wouldn't it be fun to revisit? Not to mention, if you are new member, then you never got a chance to participate in that discussion, so it is new to you.

Further still, if you, as a more tenured member, don't want to re-discuss the topic... JUST DON'T. Why does it hurt you to have an old thread come back? Maybe others will enjoy getting back into the discussion, or maybe other new members will enjoy joining in as well.

Never really got why some people don't like it. It can be a great way to bring new life to a thread that would otherwise just gut burried. Not to mention, it makes the message board a much more interesting place, because it gives new members who may have missed the original conversation a chance to jump in.