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If someone has something useful and interesting to contribute to an old thread, what's wrong with letting them post in it, rather than having to start an entirely new thread?

I wish I knew, it probably would create less threads, and repeats of the same topic over and over, but who knows.

I thought we did that anyway, mods lock threads on topics already covered and tell the poster to go and use search...

It depends.

For me...if they actually contributed something then I still allow it.

If it is just me-tooing or just pointless commenting that is akin to spam, then I see no reason to have the necromancy pass.

HemlockGrey wrote:If someone has something useful and interesting to contribute to an old thread, what's wrong with letting them post in it, rather than having to start an entirely new thread?

I suppose it's alright if someone contribues something fresh and meaningful to a dead thread, resurrecting it, in essence.

However, if someone digs up the half-rotted, maggot-eaten corpse of an old dead thread just to beat on it (without adding anything new,) then this is generally a bad thing.

In many cases, thread necromancers usually contribute nothing to the thread itself. However, when someone has something significant to add, and doesn't want to make a whole new thread about it, or there's some new development on the story, then I don't see the problem.

What about updating a thread? Such as someone talks about something in their personal life, and 2 weeks later they bump the thread when something new happens in the situation they discussed before?

I think thats what Smi meant.
It seems like a waste of a thread to make a new one when an old one can just be updated, like I did with the Computer thread I made a while back and updated it the other day.

As long as its something fresh and interesting, it doesn't matter, but if someone goes on to write "Ha ha, you lost sucker!" on an old debate thread, it gets dead annoying and pushes meaningful threads farther down.

You should post in old threads if you have something significant to say, instead of posting a new one. Resurrect one to say "Cool" or "this guy is a joke" or similar one liners and the mods will be unhappy

How about if there's an art thread, and the artist resurrects it to put new art pieces in it? <COUGH!> Me and my 'Phun With MSPaint!!!!11' Thread </COUGH!>

I take it that would be Kosher then?

HemlockGrey wrote:If someone has something useful and interesting to contribute to an old thread, what's wrong with letting them post in it, rather than having to start an entirely new thread?

Probably the fact that what you've described generally isn't considered to be thread necromancy. Its typically post which will not provoke a significant continuation of the discussion that lead to termination.

Me too.

Ghost Rider wrote:It depends.

For me...if they actually contributed something then I still allow it.

If it is just me-tooing or just pointless commenting that is akin to spam, then I see no reason to have the necromancy pass.

Pffft psh pshaw, you locked a thread I brought back from like 3 days old when new info came out for the argument. Eeeevil