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TrekStar · Post by **TrekStar** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 12:27 pm

hey guys,

just wanted to Point out, that I'm realizing old threads being bumped excessivly since about half an year or so. I find that totally unpractical. e.g. in the "instruments" Forum section, which is normally a place to get Information about new developments - there are many threads which have been started years ago! the title of the thread is totally misleading. what is the idea about that? to Keep the Forum "tidy"? well, I think the opposite is the result, the Forum gets unclear through that. for me it makes sense to start several threads about e.g. one vsti, if the themes are differing.

how do you think about it?

wolf

Daags · Post by **Daags** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 1:07 pm

TrekStar wrote:how do you think about it?

you're right of course. there's one guy who treats 'necrobumping' like a hobby. makes you wonder just how bored and bone-idle he really is. I mean...there's bored and bone-idle (watching repeats on tv).... and then there's bored and bone-idle (searching old threads to bump under some phoney pretense of genuine interest).

a mod should nip his behaviour in the bud... not because it's an especially malignant disruption or anything (it's more of a benign disruption), but for his own good. It's a really unhealthy past-time... he's destined for an existential crisis at some point, if he isn't already in the midst of one.

ymmv. god bless america.

ras.s · Post by **ras.s** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 2:09 pm

I don't mind it. In fact, I quite like it at times. This is a forum after all, there's no expiration dates on discussing something. There's been more than a few occasions when someone has bumped an old thread and brought something to my attention of which I didn't know about. And old threads can have nuggets of solid information in them, perhaps a tangential conversation about a technique or something like that. Yet on the other hand we have countless of threads about effectively the same stuff, what's the best, yadda yadda -- those conversations could go into a one gigantic thread.

I've been fooled a few times though, reading something and not immediately realizing the thread is ten years old. But usually catching up or finding what it's about is a matter of finding the point at which it was bumped and then reading on from there. If it's not an interesting topic I don't even open it.

And then there are those threads that are started by a developer about a specific synthesizer (or effect or whatever) that serve as sort of official threads. They're good too, far better than having new threads popping up all the time and then trying to catch up with what's new. Or someone returning to an old thread about a specific issue and instead of starting a new one and getting complaints about doing that, the conversation just picks up from where it was left at. No harm done there, either.

At least for me it's not as irritating as posting in the wrong forum or complaining about posting in the wrong forum. ....shouldn't this be in Site Stuff or in Off Topic anyway? >;)

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 2:22 pm

It's ok when the thread was bumped righteously, and someone has a valid question, or comment to make. It's not ok when someone just bumps for the bumps sake, and has nothing useful to add, but rather asks something he could have answered himself with 30 seconds googling, or has some irrelevant comment to make. Both happens here frequently. I don't think the people doing the latter really can complain when they're getting called out for it.

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 2:36 pm

Can't quite decide which is worse...... necrobumping or necrobump-complaining? And what about necrobump-complaining-complaining?

Robmobius · Post by **Robmobius** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 2:48 pm

It should only be for important info about the product, etc. That would be legitimate imo.

But peddling a something that has no direct relation to the thread should just be deleted (I could name several examples but I won't).

Or just some yokel bumping something for no good reason, because he or she 'likes' a product. If you want to talk about a product again, at least make a new thread about it - so the info is still relevant to this decade.

maschinelf · Post by **maschinelf** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 2:51 pm

Don't know how I feel about this. I have done so myself on a number of occasions, and sometimes it feels appropriate and other times it may make more sense to start a new thread. On the other hand, starting a new topic makes it easier for others searching for the same question in future. I recently necrobumped a thread pertaining to the Ruin & Wesen Mini Command for the Elektron Machinedrum, and as Daags suggested, it did seem to make more sense to start a new thread (and post on other forums) in that particular case, though haven't gotten round to that yet.

trimph1 · Post by **trimph1** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 2:54 pm

ariston wrote:Can't quite decide which is worse...... necrobumping or necrobump-complaining? And what about necrobump-complaining-complaining?

necrobumping old threads about necrobumping complaints

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 2:58 pm

trimph1 wrote:
ariston wrote:Can't quite decide which is worse...... necrobumping or necrobump-complaining? And what about necrobump-complaining-complaining?
necrobumping old threads about necrobumping complaints

Oooh, that one takes the cake! Off to find one right now, heh!

fedexnman · Post by **fedexnman** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 3:05 pm

I think it's OK . Especially if cat pix are included .

goldenanalog · Post by **goldenanalog** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 3:28 pm

All this discussion about pointless ancient thread-bumping really begs the question: Which is better? Analog or digital?

(Sprints out of the building & down the street)

Mace404 · Post by **Mace404** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 7:53 pm

How funny it will be when this thread gets necro'd years from now.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 8:03 pm

Mace404 wrote:How funny it will be when this thread gets necro'd years from now.

I look forward to do it.

Necro is the way to go IMO, it honours knowledge already posted in the forum.

What I can't stand is when a users start a thread about something, and then it drops of the first page, and then three weeks later another users start a new thread about exactly the same.

Makes it difficult to find all relevant info quickly, when it is spread over many threads like that.

Numanoid · Post by **Numanoid** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 8:08 pm

Daags wrote:you're right of course. there's one guy who treats 'necrobumping' like a hobby. makes you wonder just how bored and bone-idle he really is. I mean...there's bored and bone-idle (watching repeats on tv).... and then there's bored and bone-idle (searching old threads to bump under some phoney pretense of genuine interest).

How bored or bone-idle are you to actually care about it

robotmonkey · Post by **robotmonkey** » Sun Feb 21, 2016 8:32 pm

In a couple of years time I'm gonna go back to this thread and resurrect it to remind people that bumping old threads suck and some of us do not like it.

bumping old threads -> I don't like it