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Originally Posted by Grimalkin
Coda ~ That is wonderful, I have always wondered about that. Thank you for explaining. Could you perhaps expand on "necroing" and why that is a bad thing? I've read it and the explanations given but I still am not 100% sure what exactly it means.
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Necroposting is, simply put, posting in a "dead" thread. What constitutes "dead" varies from community to community, but it always involves being inactive for a long time.
On sites where there's a lot more debate and argument going on, necroposting has a tendency to revive threads about topics that are already argued to death. It's unlikely that someone new is going to come in and provide some sort of meaningful new insight months after the discussion is over, and even if they do... do the people who were IN that thread before really want to get back into that after they thought it was behind them?
On sites where there's a lot of support going on, necroposts often say "I'm having this problem too!" (sometimes even when it's NOT the same problem, it just sort of vaguely looks like it) or they offer solutions to problems that have already been solved. In both cases it just adds noise that doesn't help anyone and just takes up the time of people who are otherwise doing useful things.
Trisphee doesn't tend to have either of these problems, so we have a more relaxed version of the rule that covers the parts that actually matter: If you're posting in an old thread, we expect you to have something useful to say. We don't need to be stricter than that.