Older threads are good. If someone is having an issue, they should post in the oldest thread about that issue. It give perspective on how the issue has evolved over time. It highlights the ongoing nature of the issue. Kneecapping search results to only show past 30 days have no purpose. It would turn us all into goldfish.
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Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Some old threads are truly evergreen. I donāt think anyone has a problem with those. Others have been overcome by events and the discussion is really no longer relevant.
And yes, itās probably impossible to tell by date alone which one of those youāre looking at. What I think they could do (and maybe ought to do) isnāt to kneecap the search, but simply highlight search results that arenāt active discussions. I donāt want the results to simply not appear. Iād like to see a tag, though.
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Iāve gotten like 7 likes on a post I made in July 2019 today and I have no idea why. Nobody necroād the thread
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Or forummancer
With unique titles like:
Saan of the Forum
Saan, survivor of downvoting
Saan, the crazy cat.gif poster
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Iām creeping in your feed, tapping forbidden hearts from past ages.
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Necroing a thread about necroing threads is very meta.
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17 days exactly, it is an unspoken written rule, or was it a spoken unwritten rule? Now you got me confused.
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I necro a thread to usually check what the OP has posted is true or false.
So next time the poster will likely do his research and provide accurate information.
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I donāt necro a thread that is old and irrelevant to tack on some unrelated question. Thatās the worst. Close second is necroing a thread whose information is totally out of date and relates to an issue that no longer happens. Or both of these.
But some very old threads are still very relevant.
/shrug
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the necrolords didnāt get the memo it was time to leave the Shadowlands
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My sincerest apologizes. I was practicing a bit of Necromancy and some of that energy probably escaped here to the forums. I should really do this in a more controlled environment.
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Pretty sure that rule is both unwritten and unspoken.
Same problems still exist. When people make new threads people complain why not post in threads already there. When they post in threads already there people complain they necro threads.
Which way you want it?
Probably just a polite way to tell them to shut up about it.
Ima do it! See yall in 6 months.
After a certain amount of time threads should auto-lock.
Problem fixed.
Imagine making a post about it.
Imagine even responding to a post about it oh wait
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Itās almost the end of the year, and it is time to look back at all those post we have forgotten or lost.
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Best take yet.
They only grow stronger in death.