Necro is most often used in a negative connotation though.

As in, "Why necro a 2 year old thread?"


Granted that instance mostly applies to conversation-based topics, where someone is posting a sudden reply to a conversation that ended some time ago. Even then using an existing thread is still probably preferable, but an acknowledgement is usually nice... For example, "I know this is an old thread, BUT ________ is still something I would like to see implemented in game."


Information-based topics technically have no expiry date... since new players can start playing this game at any time and everyone is at various points of progress in a multitude of activities. I applaud them finding an existing thread relevant to their question and using that instead of making an additional thread about the same thing. Everyone doing the latter results in a jumble of topics kind of sort of about the same thing, but none of them having complete information.