I used to hate when this happened to me. Someone reviving a post from ages ago to answer a question that I already found months/years ago.
But hey, it could help someone else in the future if I didn't go back and post the answer to my own question (spoiler alert: I didn't) so now I just do what OP does and thank them for their time, move on with my day. Chuckle at the stupidity of my youth.
Some people get angry about things like that. Just be chill, they probably didn't notice how long ago it was posted.
I still occasionally get replies on reddit from threads that are over a decade old. I used to use reddit a lot, but that has dropped to almost nothing after switching to Lemmy.
Yes, many forum troglodites have this heinous reaction. Many of them are incompetent forum moderators. They are upset because they have notification of all changes happenning on the forum but this isn't novel and interesting to them personnally so they attack it with words like "necroposting". Those mostly recycled bbs people with almost no life left in them or OCD people who must compulsively complete and categorize everything and are upset when something is added to something they believed completed. Eventually we will rid our information ecosystem of these, at best, overzealous users or at least marginalize them so they stop causing damage, cutting connections, creating deadends and stopping progress generally. It's like I always say, progress occurs one funeral at a time.
LoCk StAlE ToPiCs bEcAuSe ThEy'Re OlD
Ban users for “necroposting”.
Necroposting should be eradicated from the vocabulary. I search for people who use that word and bully them mercilessly. The idea that you can't continue a conversation from 1992 by people who are all dead is ludicrous. The gatekeepers of our information ecosystem are incompetent troglodytes by and large unfit to manage their own underwear, let alone the great archive of the public square.
9 years later: You're welcome!
this kind of thing has saved my life so many times, please keep doing it! also I get a little excited when someone replies to an old post.
!remindme 12years
I sometimes do the same.
Almost penpals by now
There's (kinda) an xkcd for that https://xkcd.com/979
According to spotify this song was released 2022.
Furthermore: I dunno what this "everybody wiki is" but he seems to be a special kind of musician https://en.everybodywiki.com/Jincheng_Zhang
Reminder: Be sure to flair it as "Solved"!
