Moderation Necroposting

Shawn Gossman said:

Do you know why? Hopefully, backlash caused an activity drop, and they realized it was a bad idea. That's what needs to happen on forums that do stuff like that, IMO.

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Honestly I think it's because of activity. The forum is still quite active, but it's no where near as active as it was when they enforced these rules.

I've never had a problem with necroposting if the one posting has something of value to add to the discussion. There may be a few exceptions, like posting on a "current event" topic that is no longer current or posting in a thread when the exact same discussion is on the first few pages. Overall, I'd rather a user necrobump than post a new topic on the same subject.

I personally have absolutely no issues with anybody posting in any thread if I've left it open. If, as an admin/mod, you don't want certain threads to be posted in, then you should remove members' ability to post in those threads.

In general, as long as the post adds something of value and is relevant to the thread, I wouldn't care if it was made 10 years after the last post in the thread. That being said, a gentle reminder to somebody if they're posting in a thread that's outdated or has a new thread dedicated to the same topic is fine too, but you should also probably consider locking those kinds of threads to avoid posts there in the first place.

I don’t have an issue with necroposting. Old content has value. I’d rather a user respond to an older topic than repost the same the topic.

I also don’t have a rule for necroposting as I find it to be an odd rule. Especially since a lot of times when someone posts on an older topic, it’s more than likely they found it through a search engine or from a link.

Cpvr said:

I also don’t have a rule for necroposting as I find it to be an odd rule.

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I honestly feel it is an overbearing rule that really doesn't make the poster feel welcome when he is told not to do that.

I honestly don't see why necroposting would be a bad thing. The user is still adding value to the forum and in my eyes keeping the forum current and active. It doesn't matter what thread they reply to as long as it is on topic and adds value.

I myself am someone who does a lot of necroposting, I like to bring the old threads back to life and sometimes people forget that the old posts even exists so I like to go to old threads that haven't been active in a while and post so I can give them another chance to flourish. I've never gotten any negative feedback for doing this and to be honest I've had forum owners encourage me to do so.

Sometimes it's sad to see a good quality thread go dead so it's nice when a member brings it back to life and gives it another chance to be active and popular again. In my mind if a forum were to ban necroposting it could make the forum look dead and abandoned.

Until I get asked to stop, I will continue being a necroposter and help the forum threads re-circulate.

And sometimes a visitor maybe turned member would show up from a relevent Google link to their search and may wish to respond to just that. Capture a guest, don't turn him away.

Good discussion is good discussion. I personally don’t mind it if the new posts adds to and encourages further discussion especially if the old threads are visible on the first or second page.