My project KAPMAN

[shinkarom]

Tom, Astraios, thank you.
Xinux, Guitarplayer, Ulrike, you too.
Legion, what do you expect from me? To abandon it?

[Legion]

Legion, what do you expect from me? To abandon it?

No, only to abandon posting here.

[WechtleinUns]

Shinkarom, don't worry. Everybody was a noob once. You have to work your way up from the bottom. I've been on here on and off for fourteen years, and I still don't have anything presentable.

[Pinetree]

Shinkarom, don't worry. Everybody was a noob once.

No, only to abandon posting here.

And some people have been jerks since day 1.

[Hallow XIII]

you are necromantizing a thread that has not been posted in for two years

why

[Jipí]

why

Cause noobs.¹

¹) José, if he's been around for 14 years, is not strictly a noob, I suppose, but I'd still expect it to be common sense not to necro ancient threads. Anyway, it's a very noobish thing to do round these parts and if you've been lurking for 14 years, you should be aware of the local forum culture.

[WechtleinUns]

Yes. Because Noobs. Also, it was referenced in another thread. So I looked it up.
:edit:

lol, Jipi. You are quite right. Haha. Pero, no esta una problema por yo, entiendes?

[patiku]

What's wrong with necroing threads?

[maıráí]

One would never necro a conversation. Most people wouldn't remember the context if you just suddenly continued one you'd been having a year ago, and seeing as how they are expected to respond, this would put them off.
A thread is exactly like a conversation. There is no way to read up and get back the context, and you are always required to reply, so people are put off when a thread is necroed.
I mean, duh.
Plus, once a thread has stopped being replied to for a certain amount of time, it is literally impossible to contribute anything of worth. Scientists have tested this and have found that this is facts. Mothers agree, as well as nine in ten doctors.
The net-wide ban on necroing isn't the dumbest thing ever.
I mean, duh.

[GrinningManiac]

Damnit - there was me ready to respond to all the stuff on page one.

I really need to make sure to read the post-dates on "new" topics

[WeepingElf]

I know one forum - the German Weltenbastler Forum - where necromancing an old thread is preferred over starting a new thread on the same subject to such a point that the admins often merge new threads into old ones. You are expected, before starting a new thread, to search the forum archive for an appropriate old thread!

But that is the exception. In most fora, necromancing a thread just puzzles the readers. Valiums's comparison with oral conversations is only partly apt, though: in a necromanced thread, you can always read up the discussion that has happened back then.

Still, I won't advice in favour of necromancing threads.

[cromulant]

This is going to be a problem because I've been dying to know if there's been any updates to Shit Demon Speech. I've been wanting to give Bob's thread a friendly "bump," but I don't want to put too much pressure on him, so I thought I'd wait till summer of 2014.

However, it now sounds like the reception to such a friendly gesture would be icy at best.

[maıráí]

But that is the exception. In most fora, necromancing a thread just puzzles the readers. Valiums's comparison with oral conversations is only partly apt, though: in a necromanced thread, you can always read up the discussion that has happened back then.

Fyi that entire post was sarcasm.

[clawgrip]

Plus, once a thread has stopped being replied to for a certain amount of time, it is literally impossible to contribute anything of worth.
I mean, duh.

However well-intentioned Jose's post may have been, telling Shinkarom 2 years after the fact not to worry about Legion's negative comments does not really seem to fall under the description "anything of worth."

[maıráí]

Necromancy is not a perfect science.














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