Is necroing threads frowned on around here?

daninthemix

daninthemix

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For instance, I really need to give Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier a good kicking, as its a vile piece of inept design and giving it a darn good beating is a righteous thing to do. To do that I either need to make a new thread, or resurrect an existing thread, of which there are none post-2009 or thereabouts.

So just wanted to check what the etiquette is here.
 
IMO it depends on the content of the thread. AKA if it's a troll thread or not. and OT is perfectly fine to necro I think.
 
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It used to be frowned upon but I haven't seen it actioned in ages beyond just closing the thread. That being said, I personally find it annoying, so my advice is to just make another thread to talk about it, as many members will do when they want to discuss an older game, and often times they'll place a LTTP before the thread title to indicate that they're "late to the party", though that's not necessarily required either, just kind of a thing folks often do here. I guess use your best judgement, but I'd just make a new thread.
 
New thread. LTTP (Late to the Party) or RTTP (Return to the Party) prefixes, or Retro if going far enough back, help provide context. Preferably have something substantial or interesting to say.
 
You would make a new thread in such a case OP. You should only necro a thread if it is, say, an update to something in an old thread.
 
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I always thought that if there's a thread already for a thing you're supposed to search for an comment on said thread vs creating a new thread…which would mean sometimes a necro bump.
 
If it's something that hasn't been talked about in 'quite a long while' but you have new info about it. Necro it.
Forgotten game in development that gets a new trailer? Necro it.
 
no. it's a forum. use threads to talk about what you want.
These are useless kilobytes. Nobody is hurt if you post in 2005 thread
 
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Also, bruh, you've been a member for 13 years. Shouldn't you have a better idea of what's tolerated round these parts?
 
rofif said:
no. it's a forum. use threads to talk about what you want.
These are useless kilobytes. Nobody is hurt if you post in 2005 thread
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EviLore said:
New thread. LTTP (Late to the Party) or RTTP (Return to the Party) prefixes, or Retro if going far enough back, help provide context. Preferably have something substantial or interesting to say.
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Trust one of these posts OP.
 
I recently necrod fear extraction point thread from 2006 For some help and it got mixed reactions
 
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EviLore said:
New thread. LTTP (Late to the Party) or RTTP (Return to the Party) prefixes, or Retro if going far enough back, help provide context. Preferably have something substantial or interesting to say.
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Don't forget the KAH prefix, boss.
 
As long as it's not an old news story and I reply as if it was from this decade looking like an idiot ...
then I don't mind necro bumps
 
rofif said:
no. it's a forum. use threads to talk about what you want.
These are useless kilobytes. Nobody is hurt if you post in 2005 thread
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The problem i see everytime someone does a necro, is that you end up having alot of users replying and quoting 5 or more year old replies as if they where posted recently as they dont pay atention to the date the reply was posted. So you end with a weird thread where you have ppl in 2025 trying to correct what someone said ages ago.
 
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daninthemix said:
For instance, I really need to give Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier a good kicking, as its a vile piece of inept design and giving it a darn good beating is a righteous thing to do. To do that I either need to make a new thread, or resurrect an existing thread, of which there are none post-2009 or thereabouts.

So just wanted to check what the etiquette is here.
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Don't do it, OP
 
daninthemix said:
For instance, I really need to give Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier a good kicking, as its a vile piece of inept design and giving it a darn good beating is a righteous thing to do. To do that I either need to make a new thread, or resurrect an existing thread, of which there are none post-2009 or thereabouts.

So just wanted to check what the etiquette is here.
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Nah. Me and others are guilty of giving people a hard time about it but it's not a big deal.
 
If it never happens it will lose its meaning. Gotta keep the necro term....alive. You might not live through it but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
 
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Well, I at least got warnings for necroing threads.

That being said, there are a handful of threads that I necro deliberately and for which I have not received a warning. For example the PC98 thread.
 
I only don't like it when I suddenly discover that I'm replying to a super old thread without looking at the dates first. ;)

I still think resurrecting old threads should be allowed, at least for niche games that didn't get many thread replies in the first place.
 
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