Why does “reviving” a topic seem like more of an irritation? If you try to reply to an old topic, it explains that it will notify everyone involved (If I remember what the message said?).
I’m… decently new to the forums? Been on here for like 6ish months so I’m not sure how the text editting works like bulleted lists?
I can do bold and italics along with strike through but that is the best I can do.
(Wait is this post even allowed?)
I guess I will ask a question more fun based though, If you were to relate the forums to another social media, what would it most be like?
In gaming forum culture, it’s generally considered poor form to “necro” or revive old threads, as they usually contain information or content that’s either outdated or has been repeated many times in other discussions. It can also be confusing for a reader who wasn’t participating in the original conversation.
TLDR: If you have an updated opinion or take on the same topic, ask yourself if you should really revive an old conversation, or would it be better to start a new one.
Back when forums were more commonplace a lot of them had rules against “bumping” or “necro-ing” threads (to resurrect older threads which had stopped getting replies). Because the content stream shows the most recently replied to topic at the top, it generally meant that everything at the top was recent.
Bumping basically meant that you were trying to revive a completed conversation, and usually bumped threads got derailed more easily, which is why there’s a stigma against it
Problem is the forum encourages necroing by saying “look here’s a similar topic, wanna comment there instead?” when you’re writing a new post and it’s an old freakin post
The original poster might not be active on the forums anymore, which dissuades further conversation and takes attention away from active topics where people want to respond.
The context/opinions of the post may have changed (“Lúcio is uncontested” was a stance in different metas).
There are some posts that could probably be necroed just fine, but if a lot of people did it, the former points would become more prevalent.
If a thread is discussing the current state of Tracer being broken, this may be old news if there had been recent changes to bring her into line. It’s like talking about the footy match between the crows and magpies but you revive a thread from several years ago.
I’ve only recently noticed it does and have not once used the feature
Also one does not need to reply to a topic that no one cares about anymore, they can just read it and make a new topic if they wish to reignite the conversation.
The forums primarily use Markdown syntax to stylize your text but you can use some HTML script and BBCode Syntax as well, I have a detailed guide available in the World of Warcraft forums here:
) but it’s not really relevant to this thread or your question if that makes sense 