Maybe something similar to do with ‘beating a dead horse’
the problem/issue was (potentially) already discussed, and renewing the issue is tiresome for the regulars who see it repetitively brought up? This is just my guess.
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finthechat@kbin.social 10 months ago
This is the way it should be.
I've never understood the people who get upset over 'necroing' a thread, whether it is on an old school forum or something formatted like Reddit.
technomad@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
If it is about a problem they had and the thread didn’t have an answer, then they should be obliged to necro if they found a solution.
finthechat@kbin.social 10 months ago
For technical discussion, sure. I'll be one of the first people to say look at the sticky, look at the pins, look at the megathread, read the FAQ, read the wiki.
For purely social discussion like casual chat, entertainment discussion, or random musings, I would say it doesn't make sense.
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 10 months ago
I think it necroing posts on Reddit makes sense. There’s a lot of very specific posts that can vary slightly from each other but I find with forums you can get a general post for a topic that has 30+ pages of responses and it can be a bit of a pain to comb through all of them at times. In my experience I see a lot of people linking to other comments in the forum because something has already been brought up a few times.
This is basically what @technomad@slrpnk.net said about beating a dead horse but I feel like it’s slightly more tolerable with a Reddit style system where there’s more posts with at least minor differences. It’s a bit easier to follow.
This could also just be the forums that I have used shaping my opinion