At least a few times a day in general discussion I see a thread that’s last comment was from 6+ months ago get posted in again. The replies are typically on topic, but not important enough to require a new post. I don’t mind old threads being brought back to life if there was an update that addressed the issue, or if there’s an important on topic question, but most of the time these comments are similar enough to every other comment in the thread.
I’d rather not old threads be locked, but it would be nice to have a window or something ask you if you are sure you want to bump an old thread, just to cut down on this issue.
It still happens quite a lot, and I still believe the most pertinent question is ‘how are people finding these threads?’. The majority of the time the user is replying to a generic thread and adding no meaningful comments. It’s not like they’re searching for solutions to particular problems and finding threads that way.
Understanding where people come from may allow us to come up with a means to mitigate the problem.
What’s weird about it, while sometimes it’s a new user, sometimes it’s also a user with like 100 posts and they just post something random to an old thread.
Well, given that most people get told to search instead of making a new thread… Nobody said anything about not posting in what was found, relevant or not.
I see forum as a place where ppl come to learn and share;
If someone necro a topic from 2014 just to say “-hey, thanks!”, I don’t understand why to do that; meanwhile there’s people looking for help on new threads often passing unnoticed. It’s one characteristic from other forums I’d like not to see here, people look for help, post a question and nobody tries to help the poor guy while random topics are brought back…