Like I know what it is, but I don’t know. It’s so bad about it like I can see that it’s not really a good thing but it’s not really a bad thing either.
Like I know what it is, but I don’t know. It’s so bad about it like I can see that it’s not really a good thing but it’s not really a bad thing either.
Just want to point out that you can always opt to unfollow a post with a simple button click. Personally, I've never seen a problem with necro-posting. People join Wikis at different point in time. Why should they have to miss out on a conversation/post they take an interest in just because they had the misfortune of joining past the necro-post date. Or even people who are already members of the Wiki, some of them take breaks, or some of them miss a post and later check out older ones and stumble across them later. Why should they have to miss out because a post is considered too old. If you get a notification for an old post and you're not interested in follow it anymore, then just unfollow it (I do it all the time for posts I don't want to follow anymore) and then everyone can be happy, no problem.
Can someone get a mod cause i can tell this is going to become an argument
Imo there's nothing actually wrong with necroposting. Replying to old posts can reduce the amount of repetitive posts on the wiki since users won't feel compelled to make a new post on a commonly talked about topic just because the last one was made over a month ago. Wookieepedia doesn't have a necroposting rule and things are just fine over there. I suppose the only real "harm" of necroposting is if you restart an argument that was over 2 years ago or something, but some people are fine with defending a post they made years ago and some find it annoying so to me it should probably be moderated more on a case-by-case basis than a blanket ban. Though at the end of the day, this is just one of those rules that both doesn't make complete sense but also aren't big enough of a deal for anyone to actually go to the admins about changing it.
But again, people can always opt out of following a post. And many posts (I'd even say a majority) don't have arguing.
Yeah, that's why I mentioned the case-by-case basis part.
And while I agree that by following a post, you are signing up to receiving notifications from it, most people reply to tons of posts per day and don't have a set timer telling them to find all the posts they replied to from the past month in order to unfollow them before someone necroposts, so it can still be annoying to them. Not that that means a blanket ban is the solution though.
What have I done?
Proving my point, you've sent an annoying notification to my notification box
Thanks.
So click the Unfollow option, problem solved.
Kinda late for that man
So do it now. See those three dots in the right corner at the top of the webpage. Click on that, select "Unfollow Post", and you won't get anymore notifications for the post while the others who still want to continue receiving notifications can continue to do so until hey decide they don't want to anymore. The same is true for Necro posts. Everyone's happy.
What do you think?