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View Poll Results: Why all these long gone threads get revived? | |
Accidentally
|    | 6 | 18.18% | |
Nerd initiation rite
|    | 8 | 24.24% | |
Just for kicks.
|    | 11 | 33.33% | |
Other.
|    | 8 | 24.24% |
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10-29-2008, 01:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | | Reviving a dead thread ???
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Hi.
Is it just a halloween thing or some kind of a nerd initiation rite. Or just for kicks.
I do agree that there's something amazingly funny about people giving gear advice to OP and arguing about it, when the original thread has been hibernating for several years  .
Even quite "top posters" in here seem to fall for that  . Makes it even funnier IMHO if it's intentional.
So what You folks think?
Regards
Sam
Edit: Is there away to re-open the poll, I made some stupid mistake with the closing time  .
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10-29-2008, 01:39 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Um waiter?.... Waiter?.... I'm afraid this conversation isn't very good. |
10-29-2008, 01:43 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | Sometimes it's good to revive old threads, but you're right that a lot of the time it's silly. I especially groan when I see somebody revive an eight-year-old thread just to say "+1" or to post some gear info they read in a bass magazine as though they were bringing light into the darkness.
For them I created this image:  |
10-29-2008, 01:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norway | | | I demand Carrots. |
10-29-2008, 02:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | Hi.
Yep, I agree, especially when the OP does it or the thread is about a lesser discussed subject. After all I see TB as much as an archieve building thing as it's a community.
^ Seen that creation of Yours a few times, funny and right to the point  .
Regards
Sam |
10-29-2008, 02:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | | Sometime you just don't notice the date of the thread when posting.
You come across a topic that interests you, post and move on w/o realizing how old it is.
Sometimes there is new information available that applies to an old thread. Other times not.
Some of the stickies are pretty old and still getting posts. |
10-29-2008, 02:17 PM
|  | Working on successful. Got the first syllable... | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huddinge, Sweden | | | While often unintentionally silly, it has one redeeming property:
They used the search! That has to be a good thing.
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10-29-2008, 02:48 PM
|  | Now a major motion picture | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Hudson Valley, NY | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Rune Bivrin While often unintentionally silly, it has one redeeming property:
They used the search! That has to be a good thing. | +1 on that.
By the way, I look forward to reviving this thread in a few years. |
10-29-2008, 02:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | | I agree, the search function is something that doesn't get used as much as it should.
Jumbotron, feel free to do that, should be fitting.
Regards
Sam |
10-29-2008, 03:12 PM
|  | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | I went digging through my old posts to find a suitable thread to bump. I found a thread I started that was closed for too much politics in it. I about fell out of my chair. I always thought I was squeaky clean here at TB. I'm crushed now. 
-Mike |
10-29-2008, 03:36 PM
| | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MJ5150 I went digging through my old posts to find a suitable thread to bump. I found a thread I started that was closed for too much politics in it. I about fell out of my chair. I always thought I was squeaky clean here at TB. I'm crushed now.
-Mike | Welcome to the dark side my friend. Buwahahahahahaha.  |
10-29-2008, 03:58 PM
| | Online | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Sunapee, New Hampshire | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar Welcome to the dark side my friend. Buwahahahahahaha. | Hehehe. Now I don't feel so bad if I decide to drop an f-bomb in a post or start a thread about the election.
Just....kidding......just....kidding.
-Mike |
10-29-2008, 04:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Boston | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MJ5150 I went digging through my old posts to find a suitable thread to bump. I found a thread I started that was closed for too much politics in it. I about fell out of my chair. I always thought I was squeaky clean here at TB. I'm crushed now.
-Mike | Just wait until you get some infraction points. That's a real hoot.
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10-29-2008, 06:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Omaha, NE | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarlet Fire Just wait until you get some infraction points. That's a real hoot. | 
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10-29-2008, 06:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by XtreO I demand Carrots. | and I agree
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10-29-2008, 10:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | Hi.
Other = carrots, spinach, broccoli, whatever.
OK?
Regards
Sam |
10-29-2008, 10:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Pittsburgh | | | I say people bring them back up because they cant think of a better thread to make. |
10-30-2008, 05:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | Random acts of posting. |
10-30-2008, 07:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gloucester, UK | | | revive old threads... saves wear and tear on the database... nothing more annoying than a new thread a day all about the same thing... people should use the search function... AND read the stickies which hold the answers to frequently asked questions...
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10-30-2008, 09:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | Hi.
I get a feeling that I didn't explain myself well enough .
I mean DEAD threads, threads like 2 to 5 years, even 8 years old. Usually by people long gone, or at least they've stopped visiting. Just one post, or heavily modified, sometimes half the posts gone kind of threads.
The first revival post innocent, but the subject of the thread usually quite provocative, if You know what I mean. That kind of threads.
I guess the recent percentage of "Nerd initiation rite" & "just for kicks" votes explains a bit .
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