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#64
Wasnex said:
I don't generally go looking for trouble anywhere else ;). The search feature is your friend, but be carefully about waking zombies. Sometimes it's okay, but it's inconsiderate to do it without a good reason :smug:.
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Legitimate question: why is it inconsiderate? I've actually had some decent exchanges with people on zombie threads. And you can barely start a thread on this site without someone saying "use the search function". If zombie thread elicits a question, what's wrong with throwing it out there to see if that particular member or perhaps someone taking a look at the new posts might be able to weigh in? I've had good advice about pickups, tuners, set lists, lots of stuff from the zombies. But if it's inconsiderate, well that would violate one of the general tenets of my existence, which is to try to be considerate. I'm just having a hard time figuring out what exactly might be inconsiderate about it.
 
#66
tb-player said:
I've been on TB for a year and a half now. When I come to this site, I typically look at the trending topics and the classifieds. I sometimes look at the 'New Posts' tab, but it's kind of similar to the trending subjects on the main page. It's weird, I never seem to see the newly started threads/subjects.

When you come to TB, where do you typically start? Do you have a routine that you follow each day? Or are you like me and just kind of scattershot?
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BASS CLIFF...I look for anything from BASS CLIFF.
 
#67
DrThumpenstein said:
Legitimate question: why is it inconsiderate? I've actually had some decent exchanges with people on zombie threads. And you can barely start a thread on this site without someone saying "use the search function". If zombie thread elicits a question, what's wrong with throwing it out there to see if that particular member or perhaps someone taking a look at the new posts might be able to weigh in? I've had good advice about pickups, tuners, set lists, lots of stuff from the zombies. But if it's inconsiderate, well that would violate one of the general tenets of my existence, which is to try to be considerate. I'm just having a hard time figuring out what exactly might be inconsiderate about it.
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It's a d*mned if you do/don't situation. Resurrect a dead thread and you catch heat. Ask a question that's been discussed somewhere else and you catch heat.

Personally, I find the self-appointed TB police who attempt to school everyone on how to use this forum to be the inconsiderate ones.
 
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tb-player said:
It's a d*mned if you do/don't situation. Resurrect a dead thread and you catch heat. Ask a question that's been discussed somewhere else and you catch heat.

Personally, I find the self-appointed TB police who attempt to school everyone on how to use this forum to be the inconsiderate ones.
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Me too, man.

In answer to your original question, I usually go to the homepage, see if there are any hot topics that are of interest, see if I have alerts, check those out, then either go to watched threads or latest bass guitar posts.
 
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DrThumpenstein said:
Legitimate question: why is it inconsiderate? I've actually had some decent exchanges with people on zombie threads. And you can barely start a thread on this site without someone saying "use the search function". If zombie thread elicits a question, what's wrong with throwing it out there to see if that particular member or perhaps someone taking a look at the new posts might be able to weigh in? I've had good advice about pickups, tuners, set lists, lots of stuff from the zombies. But if it's inconsiderate, well that would violate one of the general tenets of my existence, which is to try to be considerate. I'm just having a hard time figuring out what exactly might be inconsiderate about it.
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It's inconsiderate if the new post serves only to trick people into wasting time reading a long out of date thread, and the zombie simply goes back to sleep because no new content is added.

All I am saying, is if you're going to wake a zombie, make it count. Don't make some snarkey comment. Don't introduce a new topic that doesn't relate to the zombie in any way. Don't repeat answers that have already been given in the thread; especially to people who have not logged on to Talkbass in years. People wake zombies in this way all the time.

IMHO if you have a question, most of the time it's actually better to start a new thread. When you wake a zombie it shows up as activity in the Active Today and Latest Posts threads on the home page. People see this and start reading from the beginning of the thread instead starting at your question. Only people who are still subscribed to the thread will get an alert and go straight to your question. If the thread is really old, most of the original subscribers are long gone. Also as threads get longer and longer, they often spiral off topic, which can encourage most people to unsubscribe.

IMHO some good reasons to wake a zombie: To give new info that was not discussed in the thread, or cover the discussion from a different angle that corrects misconceptions presented in the thread. For example sometimes after I have read through an old thread, I may add a note with a solution that was not originally explored. The idea is to correct the record for anyone else who uses the search feature. This sometimes gives an old thread an extended new life.

The GOFs who jump on everyone who wakes a zombie get on my nerves as well. But I see their point, because most of the zombies that are disturbed should be left alone.

Anyone who jumps on a newb for bringing up an old topic is another story. I frequently try to correct this behavior and suggest either ignoring the post or logging off. Newbs should be encouraged to ask questions and participate as far as I am concerned, as they are the future of Talkbass. IMHO it's okay to suggest using the search feature, but do it in a positive way and I suggest including examples of good threads and the best way to find them. IMHO Google usually works way better than the Talkbass search feature.
 
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@DrThumpenstein Just wanted to let you know that I felt the need to wake a zombie. So feel free to give me some grief if you want.

Why I did it? I was researching this current thread: Radial Cab Link and trying to find a wiring diagram of a series speaker cable with 1/4" plugs. I came across this post, which has the speakers wired out of phase: Best way to use 3 cabs I scanned to the end of the thread and didn't see a correction, so I updated the graphic and posted it here with an apology and explanation for why I woke the zombie: Best way to use 3 cabs I further customized the image and posted it in the new thread here: Radial Cab Link


I do feel that some people will be irritated by the zombie popping up, but in this case I felt correcting the record was important enough to warrant irritating a few people :dead:.
 
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#76
tb-player said:
I experienced that just this evening. I shared that I own a bunch of effects pedals, but no longer use effects. I plug direct. Apparently, that officially makes me a troll. :rollno:

(tb-player googles how to block a forum on TB)
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LOL... Its true. 0 sense of humor. Its difficult for me to go there and not get into trouble :) . I think it has to do with people functioning from different parts of the brain or something. Effects were never really my thing, despite the fact that I won dozens of them.
 
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Joe Nerve said:
LOL... Its true. 0 sense of humor. Its difficult for me to go there and not get into trouble :) . I think it has to do with people functioning from different parts of the brain or something. Effects were never really my thing, despite the fact that I won dozens of them.
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I contacted TB. Apparently, they had issues with guys coming into the forum and saying pedals are dumb, just to start a fight. So their attempts at controlling that have devolved into what it is today. SUPER touchy! What's funny is, when I responded the warning I received, I got a somewhat snarky response back from the moderator. Those fellas are salty. :speechless:
 
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#78
Wasnex said:
@DrThumpenstein Just wanted to let you know that I felt the need to wake a zombie. So feel free to give me some grief if you want.
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I never would.

I've never had an issue with waking zombies. I have responded to more than a couple of threads that I did not realize were zombies, some on their third or fourth "resurrection". Even when I realized after the fact that it was a really old thread, I didn't feel annoyed or offended.

Like the thread that you revisited, sometimes there are corrections, sometimes there is a new device that serves the purpose of the original poster. I recently found a part number for a drop tuner for my Aerodyne from a zombie thread. Even though the thread was years old, I woke it up, one of the original participants in the thread helped me out, and I was able to better match some new hardware for my Aerodyne.

It has never bothered me to realize that I was responding to a 10 year old thread. I just personally think that there's something a little odd about feeling "suckered" into responding to an old thread. Especially on a site where nearly half the threads include a comment such as "the search function is your friend."
 
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DrThumpenstein said:
I never would.

I've never had an issue with waking zombies. I have responded to more than a couple of threads that I did not realize were zombies, some on their third or fourth "resurrection". Even when I realized after the fact that it was a really old thread, I didn't feel annoyed or offended.

Like the thread that you revisited, sometimes there are corrections, sometimes there is a new device that serves the purpose of the original poster. I recently found a part number for a drop tuner for my Aerodyne from a zombie thread. Even though the thread was years old, I woke it up, one of the original participants in the thread helped me out, and I was able to better match some new hardware for my Aerodyne.

It has never bothered me to realize that I was responding to a 10 year old thread. I just personally think that there's something a little odd about feeling "suckered" into responding to an old thread. Especially on a site where nearly half the threads include a comment such as "the search function is your friend."
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What I don't get is that there are also older threads where you can no longer comment. I assumed that was due to the age of the post but I guess not? Maybe a function of the moderators as they see fit?
 
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tb-player said:
What I don't get is that there are also older threads where you can no longer comment. I assumed that was due to the age of the post but I guess not? Maybe a function of the moderators as they see fit?
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I think so. Sometimes a thread gets shut down, scrubbed for responses that the mods remove for being inappropriate, then reopened. Other times threads are just shut down and that's that. I suspect those might be the ones that don't get reopened. I'm not a moderator, but that's my impression.
 

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