Hey folks,
I see you have a well-intentioned warning against posting in very old threads. This seems to be a relic of "no necroposting" culture that's been around since BBS days.
This cultural quirk made a lot of sense back then, but is obsolete with the invention and refinement of the search engine. In the old days, forums were navigated by browsing them directly and looking at subjects. Nowadays, if a person lands on a year- (or decade-) old thread, it's because a search engine dropped them there.
Like it or not, that means that thread is the most relevant place for whatever query got them there, and it's the right place to continue discussion. Countless other folks searching for the same question will land on the same ancient forum thread, and that thread is a whole lot more useful if there are current responses to it.
I request that you remove the nag message against necroposting, or at least reword it to make it not seem like a bad idea. This change will (over time) increase the discoverability of information for all of your games with very little downside.
Cordially,
I see you have a well-intentioned warning against posting in very old threads. This seems to be a relic of "no necroposting" culture that's been around since BBS days.
This cultural quirk made a lot of sense back then, but is obsolete with the invention and refinement of the search engine. In the old days, forums were navigated by browsing them directly and looking at subjects. Nowadays, if a person lands on a year- (or decade-) old thread, it's because a search engine dropped them there.
Like it or not, that means that thread is the most relevant place for whatever query got them there, and it's the right place to continue discussion. Countless other folks searching for the same question will land on the same ancient forum thread, and that thread is a whole lot more useful if there are current responses to it.
I request that you remove the nag message against necroposting, or at least reword it to make it not seem like a bad idea. This change will (over time) increase the discoverability of information for all of your games with very little downside.
Cordially,
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