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> boggles my mind to this day - the concept of "necroposting" as something negative. I never understood it either. I mean, as a religion. What is even sillier
by wott 5y ago
> boggles my mind to this day - the concept of "necroposting" as something negative.
I never understood it either. I mean, as a religion.
What is even sillier, is that as far as web forums are concerned, you have 50% of them which will go mad if you "necropost", and the other 50% which will go mad if you open a new thread when there is already an existing thread on the same topic (even buried), because these have the exact opposite written or unwritten rule. The latter ones love their 800 pages long topics; the former ones forbid you to follow up with a discussion even when it is the exact same topic, if the discussion stopped for a while.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoYou know what beats that still? I've been using a few boards where people believed in both these things at the same time. So when a topic stalled, it was nigh-impossible to resume it later.
- wott 5y agoAh! :) I've seen something a bit like that: moderators who would come down hard on people who ask a question, both in an old thread or a new one (because the first time they were told not to create new threads or not to necropost so they tried again, following the advice, in the opposite manner), by telling them "why can't you search the fucking forum 2 minutes before digging an old thread / creating a new thread, stupid; this has been answered multiple times: here, here and here; topic locked", and of course none of the links he gives does answer the specific problem the posters had and clearly specified, because the mod didn't spend the said 2 minutes reading the posters' questions and just stupidly copied the first search results in the rush he had to punish the intruders. So, when you hit the same problems as the posters, you are out of luck, because their questions were not answered before, and they will never be.
- kergonath 5y agoI have seen this unfortunate behaviour in mailing lists for some Open Source software as well. Gatekeepers with anger issues and too much time on their hand (but not enough to actually answer the question). Sometimes I wish these people realised how hostile they are and unwelcoming to new users and potential contributors, but maybe that’s the point. The result is ~10 relevant hits when you Google an error message with not a single useful solution.
- zerocrates 5y agoGetting redirected to post on a locked thread where that's not allowed... I propose to call this the Catch-302.