I acknowledge it. I preface my post with something, usually /rezz or I'll comment "I know this is old but..."
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I have had threads on reddit that were well over 5 years old get comments. I'm not upset, but I am questioning how you ended up so deep in the past + what the hell past me was thinking.
Time changes as you age. A couple years is not dead.
Most news threads are posted so often that they die in a week.
Older = Less eyes than when posted. (And thats ok.) For particularly dead subs or the news subs, Less eyes means no eyes.
without a bumping system, fresh eyes will check the first 100ish and say "I have seen everything here" and their clients will mark it as read. I want to see notifications for more than just repliesto my own stuff.
Some subs are so niche/dead and Without markers like replies it can feel demotivating.
I dont want to feel like this.
"Dead" as in recent but crickets, or as in 2 years old but quiet?
If the former, fill yer boots and go wild. If the latter, then you're necrobumping and have a circle of hell with your name on it.
I don't make the rules...
In my experience people primarily get annoyed at thread necro when it's to ask/discuss something tangential to the initial thread. Just start a new one in that case, instead of potentially bumping notifications to several people for your barely-related issue/discussion.
OTOH if it's relevant info for a long dead thread then by all means add it or ask your query, that info could be valuable to someone with the same issue or it could be a pertinent update to an old discussion with new info.
There's nothing inherently wrong with necroing a thread though. Automated archiving of threads is mostly counter-productive. Like when I find a closed and locked thread on GitHub that I have a fix for I just go "oh well guess they can find the fix themselves".
On Lemmy? Go for it.
It’s really really funny to do. Hate anyone who does it to me though. Shit’s funnier than when Rick turned himself into a pickle when I do it though