Thread Revivals

[Ouch!]

Randomly, someone, most likely a newbie, will post in a thread that has been dead for an extended amount of time. As we all know, this is a thread revival and is usually closed right away, if the time between the last two posts is significant.

Now, I can understand somebody reviving something from the first page. It's still up there, and if you're not paying attention to the dates, it's easy to think that it's still somewhat active.

But I ask you, when someone revives a thread that's over half a year old (I just actually saw one that hadn't been updated for ten months) how do they manage it?

Do newbies know that this sort of behaviour is not looked well upon, but use their excuse of newbness to revive it anyways? Or do they simply not know what they're doing? I don't know about you, but I don't view threads that are farther than half way down the page (unless it's GC where you get a lot of traffic.) I barely ever touch the second page.

Threads that pop up a year later have to have been revived from at least the third page. This brings me to the conclusion that those who are responsible for thread revivals are either looking for these threads, or just have a complete lack of common sense.

What do you think?

[-N-]

There are some people who think its funny, and keep doing it, or some people who try and make it "their thing" and keep doing it. It's a pain in the ass, really. Unless it's the FFV forum, because that stuff is so old it smells.

[Rase]

I think that a lot of them honestly don't reilize(sp?) it, most likely because they haven't been in a forum ever before.

On a sidenote, how long is it before a thread is considered "dead"? 3 months, 6 months, what?

[Thunday Man]

Some are just ignorant. They dont know any better. Not a knock or flame against them or anything. Maybe people did a search on a topic they were about to post, and they found it and posted in it, but it happens to be really old. Mistakes happen.

[Lon611]

yah...hehehe. no, i don't do that, lol. i think i've been here long enough.

but i always wondered:how/why do some threads get "locked"?

[-N-]

Mods or Admins can close them - usually if the thread becomes inappropriate, dead and someone revives it, or spam-filled (my favorite ). I consider a thread dead after two weeks, m'self.

[Lon611]

inappropriate like...getting off topic or like, you need to be over 18?, lol

if they're so inappropriate, why can u still access them (i think)?

[Ouch!]

If they're too inappropriate for viewing, they'll be deleted. For the other reasons they'll just be closed. Inappropriate behavior such as flaming will get a thread closed, but not always deleted.

I have to agree with princeofdarknez so far, I'd think they do it on purpose. I just can't believe that with how often it happens that it's an accident.

[kikimm]

They probably just don't care. That's why so many of them are getting banned. Because they disregard the rules. This is in my opinion, though.

[TasteyPies]

inappropriate like...getting off topic or like, you need to be over 18?, lol

if they're so inappropriate, why can u still access them (i think)?

Because anything over 18 is deleted and replaced by a statement from the staff for others to look at so they don't do the same. Thats the only reason I can think of that keeps them from deleting them all together.....future reminder and warning.

[Lon611]

i don't understand why nebies do it either. like, you see it's from a long time ago, even if reviving it was funny, you'd look like loner considering your answering a dead thread, lol. kids these dayz...

[TasteyPies]

There is nothing wrong with answering a dead thread as long as the topic is still relevant and gets more replies from other people.

The mods seem to differ on my ideas on that though xD

No I don't remember reviving any old threads.

[Logan]

They probably just don't care. That's why so many of them are getting banned. Because they disregard the rules. This is in my opinion, though.

Makes sense to me.

[Del Murder]

There is nothing wrong with answering a dead thread as long as the topic is still relevant and gets more replies from other people.

Yes, but there is a statue of limitations on those things. Some forums have a shorter time period. GC gets so much traffic that even a month is too long, but that's just the way it goes.

I think people who revive the old topics don't realize that it is a bad idea. Newer members search the forums they like for interesting topics and when they see one they'll post in it disregarding that it is from september 03 or something. It hasn't become that big of a problem.

[TasteyPies]

Yes, but there is a statue of limitations on those things. Some forums have a shorter time period. GC gets so much traffic that even a month is too long, but that's just the way it goes.

....why?

Why is a month too long? Why can't a topic keep going after death if it is fun and reasonable.