• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    And imagine if public facing forums weren’t mostly dead because of the “necroposting” hate moderator brainworm

    Oops this discussion from 2017 is the number one google link for your niche topic ? Well, too bad, post in new and maybe in five years it will be #2 post on google for that topic.

    Who put the nerds with no friends in charge of human social interaction ‽

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      7 months ago

      Yeah. Closing threads after a few days or getting mad at users for replying to old posts is stupid and bandwagony.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t know what you mean by “necroposting” hate moderator brainworm". Care to elaborate one what this I and why it is bad?

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        7 months ago

        It’s very common for forums to have rules against posting in a thread that hasn’t seen any activity for an arbitrary amount of time. When you do that, you will often cause a thread that has fallen from the front page to bump back to the top of the front page. It’s not clear why this is a problem, though. Maybe regulars just dislike seeing old topics brought back up?

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          7 months ago

          It’s the snowball effect.

          Most people can’t think for themselves, so they just do what everyone else is doing.

          If you deviate from the crowd, then you’re in the wrong.