Thread Necromancer: Difference between revisions

 

 

So you are a forum member and you are reading some old threads. Suddenly you see an extremely interesting thread, maybe a few months old, sometimes even years old. You like it, you don't understand why it was abandoned... You want to revive it.

 

 

While some forums explicitly ask people to revive old topics instead of posting a new-but-similar one, other communities can and often will get pissed if someone starts digging up a number of ancient threads and parading the shambling corpses around. The threads died for a reason, after all, and dragging them back up without providing something new to add (And have other people discuss) will inevitably lead to the forumites with [[Torches and Pitchforks]]. They may also end up awakening something that was not meant to be awakened, especially if the thread was killed by a nasty [[Flame War]]. The hapless necromancer may raise the topic from the depths hoping to rekindle the original discussion only to have it burst into flames as the tangent reignites the posters. In particularly extreme cases (though not uncommon) of [[Thread Necromancy]], a newbie will wind up attempting to strike up a conversation with someone who doesn't even visit the forum anymore.