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I started online with BBS and only later graduated to Mosaic and Gopher and even later was one of those who actually bought a subscription to Giganews. Despite all this timer and experience I still don't understand the reason for the bias against so-called necro-posting. In many if not most cases someone found an older post still valuable in some way so what's the big deal? I am much more peeved by posts even by institutions that are not obviously dated where one has to search to find out if the information is still valid or relevant. This even extends to modern services like Netflix and Amazon where people are expected to pay for viewing shows that were free 10,20, 30, even 50+ years ago.
That someone found a post from 10 years ago regarding Live Slack valuable I found amusing and mildly interesting, not offensive. Am I missing something?
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Originally Posted by enorbet
That someone found a post from 10 years ago regarding Live Slack valuable I found amusing and mildly interesting, not offensive. Am I missing something?
I quite agree with you, but... The problem I see, having been "victim" myself , is that when you start to read thread, unless you take some attention to the posting date, you sometimes read dozens of messages which are 10 years ago, and you don't know it...
I think it's an "interface" problem: you should be "ostensibly" warned that you are reading an old thread (color code or some kind of "banner" added somewhere). So old threads could be reasonably revived, without polluting users trying to answer an 10 years old or more question.
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, is that when you start to read thread, unless you take some attention to the posting date, you sometimes read dozens of messages which are 10 years ago, and you don't know it...
