Good grief! This post is 5,687 days old, and not replied to since 5,666 days ago, until this morning.

What's up with the all this necro-posting?

As few posts as there are these days, maybe it’s a good thing. There were only 4 new posts in the last ~24 hours or so, including this one.

It's not always a bad thing.

Losethem (imported) wrote: Wed Nov 16, 2022 3:44 pm Good grief! This post is 5,687 days old, and not replied to since 5,666 days ago, until this morning.

What's up with the all this necro-posting?

There's nothing wrong with doing so!

Andalusian (imported) wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 11:06 am There's nothing wrong with doing so!

TopManFL once explained to me:

- It's not always worth reviving very old threads... It's better to create your own new thread.

Halley's Comet comes once every ~75 years, and so do some threads at EA.

Not to mention some Forum users...

Paolo wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:23 pm Halley's Comet comes once every ~75 years, and so do some threads at EA.

Not to mention some Forum users...

Apparently. I remember when such things used to be frowned upon around here. *shrugs*

I've never really had a problem with it, and I was more puzzled than anything else. I actually find it amusing when someone revives one of these necro-threads, responding with a question to a user who hasn't been around for years.

I actually thought this was gonna be about what everybody has in their pockets right now, as they read the thread, and I was about to chirp off about how much I love my Leatherman folding pliers and carry one basically at all times (if I'm wearing pants, at least). Which makes my post utterly off topic, on a decade old post.

I shall remember this moment as the most out-of-context, pointless post I've ever left on the web .

At our local writer's group meeting, one guy was reading a chapter about knives and his boyhood. One of the women asked, "What is it about men and knives?" Every guy around the table pulled out their pocket knife and laid it on the table. Fortunately, I had my Leatherman Mini Me in my pocket. I realized then, and there I could never be a woman. so it's MtoE for me.

Losethem (imported) wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 6:52 pm Apparently. I remember when such things used to be frowned upon around here. *shrugs*

I've never really had a problem with it, and I was more puzzled than anything else. I actually find it amusing when someone revives one of these necro-threads, responding with a question to a user who hasn't been around for years.

A different forum I'm on has a time limit, 30 days after the last post in a thread, the thread gets locked. It's still searchable, but if one has a question you still need to start a new thread, possibly with a reference to the old one.

That forum is related to technical support on a software package I use, and they feel the time limit helps keep people talking about the current version of it, not an older one.

WheelyCurious