Hijackers and Necros

[Pyure]

This would have been awesome if this thread is necroposted with a derailing post

Give it time (we'll check back in a year)

Ok I said I supported necro, but I should amend that with a caveat. Its good when the poster indicates that he or she is aware that dark arts are about to be unleashed.

"I realize this is an old post, but I wanted to contribute new information in case it helps" or some such.

 

[PhilHibbs]

Remember the three "R"s: Reduce, Re-use, Re-animate. I find necro-whinging to be much more annoying than necro-posting. If you are annoyed by getting a notification about a pertinent and on-topic post to a thread that is a bit old, why do you think that I will be less annoyed by you posting an off-topic and irrelevant-to-the-thread complaint? I consider a "Holy necroposting Batman" post to be a derailing post, which I am against in the strongest terms. If I was a moderator, you'd be getting ban-hammered for that shit.

 

[Pyure]

Remember the three "R"s: Reduce, Re-use, Re-animate. I find necro-whinging to be much more annoying than necro-posting. If you are annoyed by getting a notification about a pertinent and on-topic post to a thread that is a bit old, why do you think that I will be less annoyed by you posting an off-topic and irrelevant-to-the-thread complaint? I consider a "Holy necroposting Batman" post to be a derailing post, which I am against in the strongest terms. If I was a moderator, you'd be getting ban-hammered for that shit.

Hah, preach it.

How do you pronounce "whinging" anyway? its one of those words I only see in print

 

[PhilHibbs]

How do you pronounce "whinging" anyway? its one of those words I only see in print

Was that an attempt to derail the thread? (p.s. wĭnj )

 

[Yusunoha]

and thus, the ultimate troll topic has been born...

 

[Loufmier]

grammar nazi thread. anyone? i'd really like one of those, for educational purposes.

 

[Mevansuto]

grammar nazi thread. anyone? i'd really like one of those, for educational purposes.

...

Allow me to bite your hook.

Grammar Nazi thread anyone? I'd really like one of those for educational purposes.

 

[Loufmier]

...

Allow me to bite your hook.

Grammar Nazi thread anyone? I'd really like one of those for educational purposes.

oh. please go on.

 

[b0bst3r]

Regardless of what people think NECRO'ing a thread is not a bad thing, it shows the person can be bothered to use the search function or at least spends the time to search posts which maybe relevant to his/her issue.

What's bad is dragging a post up from the dead just to say something irrelevant or silly.

As for hijacking .... it's more like mutiny, we're fed up with the thread and taking over, which is really hijacking and mutiny I guess. I'll shut up now and let someone hijack this.

 

[Hambeau]

Regardless of what people think NECRO'ing a thread is not a bad thing, it shows the person can be bothered to use the search function or at least spends the time to search posts which maybe relevant to his/her issue.

What's bad is dragging a post up from the dead just to say something irrelevant or silly.

As for hijacking .... it's more like mutiny, we're fed up with the thread and taking over, which is really hijacking and mutiny I guess. I'll shut up now and let someone hijack this.

You haven't been properly annoyed by a thread necro until you see the overly ripe 3 year old reeker brought back by someone responding "me too" (originally an AOL phenomenon) or "ditto" (more prevalent in the pre-oxycontin Rush Limbaugh days).

Hijacking adds spontaneity to a subject someone thought needed spicing up a bit, usually.

 

[Pyure]

You haven't been properly annoyed by a thread necro until you see the overly ripe 3 year old reeker brought back by someone responding "me too" (originally an AOL phenomenon) or "ditto" (more prevalent in the pre-oxycontin Rush Limbaugh days).

Even worse is when someone rages against 3 year old information that is no longer even valid.

 

[Antice]

You haven't been properly annoyed by a thread necro until you see the overly ripe 3 year old reeker brought back by someone responding "me too" (originally an AOL phenomenon) or "ditto" (more prevalent in the pre-oxycontin Rush Limbaugh days).

Hijacking adds spontaneity to a subject someone thought needed spicing up a bit, usually.

3 year old reeker... dude... there's nuth'n but bones on that thang. even the stench has left the morgue.

 

[Loufmier]

3 year old reeker... dude... there's nuth'n but bones on that thang. even the stench has left the morgue.

as long as there are bones there is necro to be commited.

 

[midi_sec]

this happened before necromancy was cool. it's a historically accurate docudrama on the black arts, i recommend it highly.

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

Remember the three "R"s: Reduce, Re-use, Re-animate. I find necro-whinging to be much more annoying than necro-posting. If you are annoyed by getting a notification about a pertinent and on-topic post to a thread that is a bit old, why do you think that I will be less annoyed by you posting an off-topic and irrelevant-to-the-thread complaint? I consider a "Holy necroposting Batman" post to be a derailing post, which I am against in the strongest terms. If I was a moderator, you'd be getting ban-hammered for that shit.

I cant find the picture for that! It was somewhere on these forums...

 

[YX33A]

I cant find the picture for that! It was somewhere on these forums...

Order of the Stick, sir.

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

Order of the Stick, sir.

Thank you my kind sir.

 

[Mevansuto]

oh. please go on.

No.

 

[RedBoss]

I haven't seen mods popping up in posts for a while, which is an awfully great thing. I don't think we need any backseat moderating to compensate for their reduced activity. I'll take a necro-post over "be nice" or "stay on topic" all day long.

Conversations digress, its how humans communicate.

 

[null123]

Danger averted, thread has been derailed.