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Reviving a dead thread ???

Why all these long gone threads get revived?

  • Accidentally

    Votes: 6 18.2%

  • Nerd initiation rite

    Votes: 8 24.2%

  • Just for kicks.

    Votes: 11 33.3%

  • Other.

    Votes: 8 24.2%
  • Total voters
    33
  • Poll closed .
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T-Bird

Apr 29, 2007
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Finland (Northern Europe)
#1
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 :D.

Even quite "top posters" in here seem to fall for that :hiding:. 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 :atoz:.
 
#3
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:

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#6
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
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
 
#14
Scarlet Fire said:
Just wait until you get some infraction points. That's a real hoot.
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#20
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 ;).

Regards
Sam
 

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