Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27092449-20151018200124/@comment-14138255-20160216020131

LiveandSound wrote: WC-83 wrote: It's only necroposting if something is added after 3 months with no additional information and/or relavence. Since the P in JNPR has been killed, I'd say that puts their future in question, and hence something to talk about. Not quite. A necropost is when someone responds to a dead thread or a thread whose discussion was finished, and said response has no value. 2 Examples of such:

1-"Lol, I agree" and similar spam. No value or importance nor was it necesary.

2-"Lol guys, didn't you watch episode X? It answers all those questions" when the episode in question was posted after the thread died. Why does it have no value? Because it's very likely that the people that argued in that thread had been watching the episodes, including the one the necromancer mentions.

In other words, they already knew that episode answered their questions. It's even worse if the thread and episode are years/seasons appart...

In this case it could have had value. JNPR's future is something we could discuss. The necroposter just ruined it by saying an irritating "Penny and Pyrrha will come back because I don't want them to stay dead, just for that!" theory.

Also, I'm seriously astonished this place still has no goddamn official necro policy. Many forums out there on the internet have official necro policies listed in the rules, in some places being a bannable "crime" if done too much after being warned, at the very least being listed in the Guidelines along with examples of what counts as Necroposting. And let me tell you, those things make wonders, severely decreases the number of necroposters.

Meanwhile this place gets people necroposting 1+ years old threads and comments all the time without good reason. I always consider necroposting a dickish thing to berate people for if not handled right. I "necroposted" several threads long before you came here and conversation continued as if nothing happened. If this necroposting business happened back then, it wouldn't have gone anywhere.