[MikeM32]

Does anyone else find it slightly annoying to have people dig-up a thread from months ago when they could have simply posted a whole new topic? I think some people may just be doing this for kicks or something. Maybe there should be a limit on how old a thread can be to be replied to and "bumped". Especially if that thread hasn't seen any activity in a while.

If you don't know what I mean check this out.

What's wrong with this picture? We have a thread that was started over 1 year ago, then went without any activity for almost a year and now people are replying to it?!? Sheesh.

Call it a pet peeve, but I'll bet some other people probably find it a nuisance as-well.

Mike

[philzilla]

...so they start a new thread and get jumped on for not searching the forums first.

i see it the other way round to you. i'd rather see 1 thread about something, than 4 or 5 every few months

you can please some of the people some the time, but you can't please anyone on these boards most of the time. and yes, i'm including myself in that, before anybody moans

[GK]

*moan*

[Big Mac]

I must concur with Philzilla on this one. Bumping up old threads when it's appropriate to do so is better than creating redundant threads every month or so.

[Apple Pro Underwear]

mikem32 is right.

who wants to read a thread up to a year away?

those apple pro speakers that guy was ranting about could have been changed dramatically or new problems could have been found in recent months. new readers (the ones we stuposed to be helping) might take it for fact because it's been posted recently and make the wrong decisions. this would not apply only to the speakers but to almost everything in technology. at any rate it would cause confusion to some of the newbies or people who just don't know.

of course, common sense dictates that a search within a reasonable time frame (3 months or so) for that product / service question may generate a adequite answer. a year away is too much unless you are a pro-appelite specifically wanting to read about the first apple speakers that came out a full year ago.

i got your back, mike

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
<STRONG>mikem32 is right.

who wants to read a thread up to a year away?</STRONG>

he's right on that one, sure. whoever brought that back, after a year, is an idiot. i'm not even going to look, but i'm sure it'll be pointed out to me somehow.

i'm on about threads from the last 3-4 months. look how many times in the last month alone, we've had quark vs indesign appear. in fact, some dweeb just started another one (double posted too), like we needed one. if they had questions/issues with those two applications, all they had to do was look at any of the other threads and they might have found the answer they were after there, leading to one less recurring thread

it's simple: if everyone is talking about one thing, in one thread, then there's more chance that someone with a question will see their answer, without even having to post. that's pretty cool, plus, it makes the board less cluttered.

if people get answers to their questions, then they won't have to bump topics. they bump them due to nobody answering them

[edited for dodgy grammar]

[ 03-01-2002: Message edited by: philzilla ]

[agentz]

Oh come on, give the guy a break, the user who 'bumped' the topic is a new user, only has like 2 posts. But like wow, someone who actually bothered to read the forum guidelines, searched for something that already existed that looked like it could relate to his problem and used that.

Surely we should be encouraging new users, especially when they have a specific question, rather than jumping on them for what some people see as a bad thing? And anyway, there has been a hell of a lot of discussion in that thread since it came back to the top again. How is that any different from starting a new thread?

[The Ginger Rat]

I bumped up a year old thread once, and got some very useful replies in response, in addition to the old messages. The subject was still relevant, and got some discussion going.

Bumping up silly threads, well, yes. But doesn't bother me that much. I just skim, take a quick look if it's relevant, then move on.

[Sosa]

I believe bumping up old threads is better than starting new ones, unless the new one differs considerably from the old one.

Wow this is interesting:
unless the new ones differ...
unless the new one differs...

When "differ" refers to a singular, is ends with 's'
and when it refers to plurar, it doesn't use an 's'

English is a weird language.

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Sosa:
<STRONG>English is a weird language.</STRONG>

when you american lot can speak our language properly, you can diss it. until then, try and remember why the language you speak is called English

[sokoloff]

Originally posted by philzilla:
<STRONG>

when you american lot can speak our language properly, you can diss it. until then, try and remember why the language you speak is called English

</STRONG>

A girl I bumped into in Liddypool thought all Americans should be pitied and despised equally, because they weren't subjects of the queen.

never did understand that...

[Subzero Diesel949]

And how about this one?

[Mac Zealot]

The only thing I hate seeing is *BUMP!*

Otherwise I like seeing old threads pop up again