For better or worse, I cannot find any BYC guidance on necroposting. Does BYC forums have any guidance on this issue?
In general, I have followed some guidelines on other internet forums such as this....
The issue affected me directly in that I started a new thread on a subject, and another member called me out for not responding to an 8-year-old thread that was inactive for over 3-1/2 years which included the topic thread I just started. To me, I have always considered it bad internet practice to necropost to a long inactive thread. Having said that, old inactive threads may contain a wealth of information and I am glad they still exist on the forum, for research, if nothing else.
That member continued to criticize my opening a new thread and then went back to the older thread, inactive for over 3-1/2 years, and necroposted to it with this message...
"Thought I would bring this thread back to life seeing as how it has so much more useful information than the [omitted] thread just started."
I know I may be a little sensitive to that post, but it seems to me that we could kill many new threads that way.
I am just asking what guidelines or preferences BYC forums have on this issue of necroposting to long inactive threads. Or maybe BYC has decided not to have any guidance on this issue.
I am certainly not proposing banning anyone for posting to an old, inactive thread. I myself have mistakenly responded to a few threads that newly pop up on BYC forums only to notice later that the thread was posted years ago and inactive for about as long.
I would just like to know what BYC forums thinks about these issues before I start a new thread that may have been discussed many years ago. I have always considered it bad form to post to long inactive threads. But I know any internet forum may have different preferences of posting new threads versus reviving old threads.
Looking forward to considered comments. Thank you.
In general, I have followed some guidelines on other internet forums such as this....
The issue affected me directly in that I started a new thread on a subject, and another member called me out for not responding to an 8-year-old thread that was inactive for over 3-1/2 years which included the topic thread I just started. To me, I have always considered it bad internet practice to necropost to a long inactive thread. Having said that, old inactive threads may contain a wealth of information and I am glad they still exist on the forum, for research, if nothing else.
That member continued to criticize my opening a new thread and then went back to the older thread, inactive for over 3-1/2 years, and necroposted to it with this message...
"Thought I would bring this thread back to life seeing as how it has so much more useful information than the [omitted] thread just started."
I know I may be a little sensitive to that post, but it seems to me that we could kill many new threads that way.
I am just asking what guidelines or preferences BYC forums have on this issue of necroposting to long inactive threads. Or maybe BYC has decided not to have any guidance on this issue.
I am certainly not proposing banning anyone for posting to an old, inactive thread. I myself have mistakenly responded to a few threads that newly pop up on BYC forums only to notice later that the thread was posted years ago and inactive for about as long.
I would just like to know what BYC forums thinks about these issues before I start a new thread that may have been discussed many years ago. I have always considered it bad form to post to long inactive threads. But I know any internet forum may have different preferences of posting new threads versus reviving old threads.
Looking forward to considered comments. Thank you.