Gingerbread Man on 16/11/2003 at 20:10
Resurrecting an old thread is fair if you have something to add to it. With all the "Use the fucking search function" that goes on, no one has the standing to bitch if someone dredges up an ancient thread for the purposes of continuing its topic. In fact, that's preferable to a new thread that says "I couldn't be bothered to search, so if this is old hat go stuff yourselves"
What we don't like to see is people resurrecting old threads with "bump" or "lol" or "random thread resurrection because I was bored"
Bottom line is that we leave the decision as to whether a thread resurrection is appropriate to the moderators of whichever forum it was in. If you think they were wrong in locking a resurrected thread, or if you think they should lock one that they haven't, the best thing is to PM or email them and tell them what you think. They aren't the boss of you, they are staff to help things run the way the general membership thinks should be run.
Which is an important point: If you have an idea of how things should be run, and several other people have the opposite idea, you will lose on votes. People tend to forget to bear in mind that they are not the only members of the forums when things like that happen, and go around being all bitchy because things weren't done their way, completely ignoring the possibility that many other people may want it to go the other way.
But that's more general, and that's me getting ranty again.
The skinny on Thread Resurrection: If you have something to contribute to the thread, resurrecting it isn't automatically a bad thing. If you have nothing to contribute to the thread, but wanted to bump a thread for little or no reason, that is an automatically bad thing.
Muzman on 30/11/2003 at 19:36
semi tangent
It is kinda curious how many people bump often ancient threads without noticing the date (I mean, it's not a significant number or anything, just curiously noticable). I would guess they just havent considered how the forum arranges threads, but they aren't always new members with no posts so it seems a bit odd. Makes me wonder how they find old threads. Mere clicking through the thread pages would make it fairly plain something's up, I'd think. I could always just about hear the coyotes and the wind after about page 7. But maybe that's just me
David on 30/11/2003 at 20:06
Probably from running forum searches I guess.
