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Necro threads

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  • 18-09-2008 3:44pm
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    MOH
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    I know it's probably not possible anyway, and maybe I'm the only one who gets two pages into a thread before happening to notice that I'm reading posts from 1871, but is there any way of flagging threads that started 54 years ago and have only recently been dug up again? So at least you're warned before you succumb to the stench of the decomposing rantings of yesteryear?
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    Oryx
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    MOH wrote: »
    I know it's probably not possible anyway, and maybe I'm the only one who gets two pages into a thread before happening to notice that I'm reading posts from 1871, but is there any way of flagging threads that started 54 years ago and have only recently been dug up again? So at least you're warned before you succumb to the stench of the decomposing rantings of yesteryear?
    Get in the habit of checking the date.:)

    If youre in the habit of hanging around paranormal its a habit you develop. Things rise from the dead there all the time.


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    hullaballoo
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    What on earth have you been doing that's bringing up threads from 1971? I'm just curious more than anything else. I don't have anything against flagging older threads because I've seen people berated for innocently falling into the trap of responding to an interesting thread that just happens to have died a death a long time ago.

    Perhaps you could just read the date of the last post before you open the thread?


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    Mena
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    hullaballú wrote: »
    What on earth have you been doing that's bringing up threads from 1971? I'm just curious more than anything else. I don't have anything against flagging older threads because I've seen people berated for innocently falling into the trap of responding to an interesting thread that just happens to have died a death a long time ago.

    Perhaps you could just read the date of the last post before you open the thread?

    I've always felt this necro posting was a double edged sword to be fair.

    Post a topic, get slated as it's been covered in depth before.

    Search for a topic, post in the thread, and get blasted for necro posting... Kinda lose/lose sometimes.


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    Sherifu
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    Buy a time machine.


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    Genghiz Cohen
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    Oh man, I remember the 1970s.....


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    AckwelFoley
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    i always make a point of checking the date of the started thread...

    dates and times are important to me.

    never know when you'd want one for an alibi


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    MOH
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    hullaballú wrote: »
    What on earth have you been doing that's bringing up threads from 1971? I'm just curious more than anything else. I don't have anything against flagging older threads because I've seen people berated for innocently falling into the trap of responding to an interesting thread that just happens to have died a death a long time ago.

    Perhaps you could just read the date of the last post before you open the thread?


    Huh? I never mentioned anything from 1971?


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    Onikage
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    You could start a new thread with "I found (zombie thread X) but it didn't answer (question Y)".

    And I'm pretty sure most of the posts from 1871 were burned during the Easter Rising, unless my history is a little off.


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    Slow Motion
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    Onikage wrote: »
    You could start a new thread with "I found (zombie thread X) but it didn't answer (question Y)".

    And I'm pretty sure most of the posts from 1871 were burned during the Easter Rising, unless my history is a little off.

    Indeed it is! I believe you are thinking of the census condained in the Doomsday Book, written by Nostradamus, which was first published before the esablishment of the free state in 1914 at the beginning of the start of the 100 years Boer war! Glad I could clear that up!


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