How do you regard the NECROBUMPING of old threads on WP?

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Archives are archives, forums are about discussion. Necrobumping is equivalent to taking last decade's schoolbooks and using them in today's classroom merely because you haven't figured out anything better-- pure laziness. It's anti-progress and it's just wrong. Necrobumps send me into fits or rage that are uncontrollable and possibly homicidal since I can't remember what happens when I'm done reading them. All I know is I read 15 pages of utter crap, type out my reply, and before I hit submit I find it's a necro and everything turns black until the next morning when I wake up in the park in my underwear with blood all over my body and a giant headache. Not cool, totally not cool. You shouldn't stick your opinion in something that's dead, it just gets the opinion dirty and it's not respectful of the deceased. And-- everything I've said is an understatement to how I really feel about necrobumpers.

That was the response I was looking for...the discussion may continue now, until it doesn't and then it should stay dead...

oh what's a little necro among friends?

That caption could also read I listen to anti-semitic Germans...except Bach, he never wrote anything about politics that I know about.

I don't think so, because someone else with a similar problem could benefit from that advice.

Not if it was a very specific problem.

almost no problems are 100% specific. there is never just one.

They also probably all pee'd while standing up. Small world eh ?

wha? they didn't have sitzpinklers then?

I'm not sure about Mozart, he did things, well, differently. On a side note I believe Bach was autistic, his complete adherence to the musical rules of his day and mathematic precision lead me to this conclusion. Most people would say Mozart was the autist of those three, but I think Mozart just liked messing with people-- he would use odd numbered phrases and comedic melodies which don't strike me as particularly autistic. I do, however, appreciate him thumbing his nose at the musical hierarchy of his time though.

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 it is up to each mod to decide for themselves whether such is appropriate for a given thread.

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.

Necrobumping is a new word for me. I probably did it a couple of times before figuring out to look for the dates - I read a lot of old posts in the beginning, in order not to start a discussion that people have had a hundred times before.

Do a lot of people come here with experience from other forums? I haven't been hanging out on the internet a lot before joining this forum.