dianthus wrote:
I noticed people are being asked not to bump up old threads here anymore. Is this officially against the rules now? How recent does a thread have to be, for it to be acceptable to add a comment?
I gather that it's more like it's frowned upon, and the degree of acceptability depends on context. Personally, I get more annoyed by pointless bumps of contentious threads, like someone just continually adding "+1" and such in order to keep a thread on top of a forum, a technique that used to be popular in PPR until a certain bear got banned, and people responding to long departed members in years old threads because they didn't check the date. I see that one pretty often, someone asked for advice back in '07, and someone responds just now because the site has suggested it as a similar topic, and the responder didn't notice the posting date. Really, I think about 6 months is the oldest thread I'd bump, and then only if something really relevant came up and starting a new thread was undesirable for some reason.
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