Thread Necromancy and You! - Announcements Forum

theblackdragon · 2014-08-11T00:17:57+00:00

By 'necromancy' I am referring to the attempted revival or a 'bump' of a thread over two years old for no reason other than to cause confusion or disruption to the forums. We've always let it slide before, just cleaned up the mess and archived the topics in question, but lately a few of you have been finding it hilarious to find the oldest threads possible and bump them with crap like 'tee hee look at how old this thread is' and it has to stop. The bottom line is that this behavior is disruptive and if we catch you doing it, we're going to be handing down temp-bans. I've handed out a few so far today (the main instigators, from what i've seen — and cleaned up — lately), so hopefully things will start going back to normal around here. :3 WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU: if you are a new user coming in from a Google search or something (trust me, we can tell the difference) and you accidentally bump an old or outdated thread in hopes of striking up more discussion, we'll let it slide or end the discussion ourselves with an explanation why, same for locked/redirected threads. if you are an established user with good intentions, you're honestly adding to an existing discussion that is perhaps years old, this is also okay depending on the thread in question. as with the aforementioned, if we feel the need to lock/redirect we will at least give you an explanation for doing so. if you are an established user who is in it for the lulz (and again, we can tell who you are, guys), you will wind up temp-banned. No warnings, no explanations. We're done cleaning up after you. I'll be around later in case anyone has any questions. Thanks in advance, guys :3

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Jazzer94
Mon 11th Aug 2014

Good it was getting annoying.

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Zanark
Mon 11th Aug 2014

I was half expecting this to be a 3-year old thread XD And although i didn't report the threads in question the grave digging did bother me.

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GuSolarFlare
Mon 11th Aug 2014

ok I'll never revive a thread that's a few months old out of sheer boredom again.
I didn't know it'd give people funny ideas and cause so much trouble...

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Veloster
Wed 13th Aug 2014

Am I allowed to start acting like I hate this as-well now? XD

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GuSolarFlare
Wed 13th Aug 2014

Veloster wrote:

Am I allowed to start acting like I hate this as-well now? XD

sure, I guess.... XD
anyway welcome back dude, try to stay in line now, though.

[Edited Wed 13th Aug 2014 by GuSolarFlare]

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Klimbatize
Wed 13th Aug 2014

GuSolarFlare wrote:

ok I'll never revive a thread that's a few months old out of sheer boredom again.
I didn't know it'd give people funny ideas and cause so much trouble...

LOL, I love the backhanded compliment to yourself.

Thank you for making this post, tbd. Also, long time no talk! Thankfully work will start again soon so I'll have plenty of time to lurk in the chat again.

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GuSolarFlare
Wed 13th Aug 2014

Klimbatize wrote:

GuSolarFlare wrote:

ok I'll never revive a thread that's a few months old out of sheer boredom again.
I didn't know it'd give people funny ideas and cause so much trouble...

LOL, I love the backhanded compliment to yourself.

Thank you for making this post, tbd. Also, long time no talk! Thankfully work will start again soon so I'll have plenty of time to lurk in the chat again.

yes, because that's exactly what I wanted to happen.
I won't lie it was funny at first but got really annoying really fast.
I really should try to stop excusing myself so much........ it's not like people really care if I'm truly sorry or not.

[Edited Wed 13th Aug 2014 by GuSolarFlare]

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Klimbatize
Wed 13th Aug 2014

It's not the apology, it's how you like to take credit for trends and stuff (people leaving, people being mad, people being trolls). It's just funny to observe, is all.

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GuSolarFlare
Wed 13th Aug 2014

oh, well I'm used to take the blame since a long time ago so it kinda became an habit of mine........
I should really stop it.............

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