What's up with the heavy necroing of threads recently?

[Opie]

A bit of devil's advocate here but...

The JP don't have "necro" they believe in super threads even if a thread is 10yrs old they will post new relevant information in it. They don't like creating new threads when the old one is still being used ect.... it basically is a jp branded game. And yes I'm fully aware of "the troll" lol

[Iscah]

A bit of devil's advocate here but...

The JP don't have "necro" they believe in super threads even if a thread is 10yrs old they will post new relevant information in it. They don't like creating new threads when the old one is still being used ect.... it basically is a jp branded game. And yes I'm fully aware of "the troll" lol

I agree there's a definite benefit to keeping large threads running on topics, and if the forum had active mods keeping discussion on track and in the right places then it would be a much neater way of organising things. I don't even mind seeing old posts bob up if something is actually relevant and the poster either has or is looking for new insight on the discussion. (I'm guilty myself of kicking up a few lore threads recently because 5.3 put some new light on their subjects.)

But yes. Waking up past arguments with an unimportant bumping post is... well, the intent is clear and I'm not sure how it hasn't filtered through to the mods yet.

[linayar]

A bit of devil's advocate here but...

The JP don't have "necro" they believe in super threads even if a thread is 10yrs old they will post new relevant information in it. They don't like creating new threads when the old one is still being used ect.... it basically is a jp branded game. And yes I'm fully aware of "the troll" lol

This is my forum philosophy as well.

Another thing is I don't believe that you only post for the sole benefit of the poster that you responded to. It's a public message board, so anything you post can benefit anyone else who reads it. So even if it's a necro, and the poster you responded to won't read or respond to your post, your post can still add to the discussion as a whole and someone else can read it.

That said, I understand that there are certain types of posts that don't seem to have any use, but such is life.