I would expect it to be the opposite, necroposts accepted on a strictly social forum and not technical, for all the reasons I've already given.Grench said:The 'no necroposting' rule is something I would expect in a strictly social forum and NOT in a technical forum.
If you're willing to put in the work, ready to correct, delete, or move any post that unnecessarily bumps an outdated thread, then I respect your stance. Just be aware that if I find such a post I'll make an immediate followup post to inform others that it is a very old, bumped topic. Feel free to delete such posts once action has been taken or relevance established.mali said:It looks like people prefer a less strict attitude towards bumping old threads and so this will be my basis to work with. Bumping old threads is allowed as long as the topic is still valid and the post isn't crap.
Just asking for progress or posting meaningless stuff is crap and will be deleted. Moaning about necroposts will be deleted, too. Everyone bumping old threads should take the most recent one if there are several similar topics to choose from.
No.Poem58 said:Since many topics can become horribly outdated shouldn't the idea of removing old threads that could not possibly be needed in the future be looked at as well?
mali said:^ You misunderstood Your post was actually the reason for this poll. I asked myself "What nonsense are you doing?" when I moved your post
I've seen several flamewars in the past after someone bumped an old thread so I wanted to know what people really think
WizardStan said:I would expect it to be the opposite, necroposts accepted on a strictly social forum and not technical, for all the reasons I've already given.Grench said:The 'no necroposting' rule is something I would expect in a strictly social forum and NOT in a technical forum.
What's your explanation for your opinion?
Poem58 said:Since many topics can become horribly outdated shouldn't the idea of removing old threads that could not possibly be needed in the future be looked at as well? I've never quite understood the concept of saving all posts ever made when after a certain point they no longer have any relevance.
WizardStan said:mali said:Just be aware that if I find such a post I'll make an immediate followup post to inform others that it is a very old, bumped topic. Feel free to delete such posts once action has been taken or relevance established.
That is only because you enjoy being a tattle tale, narc, pain in the ass, etc... You get some sort of personal satisfaction for jumping all over people for failing your personal, yet irrelevant rule set, regardless of the justification. You are not starting new posts as a troll, but you certainly do post a lot of pointless troll-like attempts to start arguments instead of adding pertinent information. You -enjoy- telling someone they should have searched, read the forum rules, are a fool, etc... Fine, whatever gives you a thrill.
Frankly, this is the first time I have EVER encountered a supposedly technical forum where necroposting is against the rules and adding additional threads for the exact same topic is not. Usually it is 100% the other way around. If you have something on a topic, search the topic. If you find 90% of your answer in a thread, post a clarification question or post an additional point to that thread. Then the next person can search, find your information as well - and it's all in the same thread.
Then people like WS can, when a newb posts a question that has been answered, point them to the thread that they should have posted to and berate them for not searching to their hearts content.
Removing the necroposting rule and -encouraging- single threads on topics instead of fragmented information would go a long ways to making these forums more usable.
As an example, how many threads do we have on SDHC cards and what is the maximum card speed that is usable on the Pandora? Which one has an actual answer? When we finally do have an answer after end users set up appropriate benchmarks, etc... Which thread should the answer post to? Many of those threads haven't seen light in 6+ months. Any search is going to come up with all of them - anyone looking for a real answer will have to go through them all to find it. If they had been encouraged to all be one thread - since the questions are all pretty much the same, the answer could be posted at the end of one - or a link to the new thread with the answer could be posted at the end of it. This blanket necroposting rule is just a mechanism for power hungry trolls to jump all over well intentioned people. It does more harm than good. End it.
IMHO
No, it's because people like me often don't realize that a recently-bumped thread is actually really old. I don't know how many times I've gone through a thread thinking "When did this happen? What is wrong with these people?" only to have it all make sense when I see WizardStan point out its age (he doesn't cause trouble, just points out its age). Yes, timestamps are there, but not prominent enough to catch my eye.Grench said:WizardStan said:Just be aware that if I find such a post I'll make an immediate followup post to inform others that it is a very old, bumped topic. Feel free to delete such posts once action has been taken or relevance established.
That is only because you enjoy being a tattle tale, narc, pain in the ass, etc... You get some sort of personal satisfaction for jumping all over people for failing your personal, yet irrelevant rule set, regardless of the justification.
There's been 5 or 6 such questions, I believe. All of them should contain the answer, or a link to one of the other threads that has the answer. I know this because I'm usually the one that answers it. I don't understand what point you're trying to make though. None of them were started out of fear of necroposting, however; they were all borne of a failure to search.Grench said:As an example, how many threads do we have on SDHC cards and what is the maximum card speed that is usable on the Pandora? Which one has an actual answer?
mali said:My opinion:
I never cared much about gravedigging and often would have prefered to continue an old discussion instead of starting a new one, when the topic is more or less still valid.