Can a discussion thread be necroed if it "didn't age well"?

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Can a specific discussion thread be legally necroed if the subject matter "didn't age well"?

For instance, a certain member is already counting chickens and spiking the ball in the end zone on a specific current events story, and that story is still developing. It might be useful to go back to it a year from now.

Please be kind, this is an honest question.

 

[Xelor]

Can a specific discussion thread be legally necroed if the subject matter "didn't age well"?

For instance, a certain member is already counting chickens and spiking the ball in the end zone on a specific current events story, and that story is still developing. It might be useful to go back to it a year from now.

Please be kind, this is an honest question.

I don't even understand the "necro'd" concept and its application here. I tried to ask about it once, but was rebuked -- by having my thread querying the matter closed -- for doing so.

 

[Bullseye]

Can a specific discussion thread be legally necroed if the subject matter "didn't age well"?

For instance, a certain member is already counting chickens and spiking the ball in the end zone on a specific current events story, and that story is still developing. It might be useful to go back to it a year from now.

Please be kind, this is an honest question.

What's "necroing?

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I don't even understand the "necro'd" concept and its application here. I tried to ask about it once, but was rebuked -- by having my thread querying the matter closed -- for doing so.

To "necro" a thread means to dig it up ages and eons after it has dried up on the board.
So for instance, if a year from now heads are all rolling at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and no one has posted in the "I've never seen the Left run so fast" thread for five months prior, it is frowned upon to dig up the thread because it is considered "necrotic" or "dead".

There are a few threads that I think deserve an exception, this is only one of about five or six which merit a fresh look a year from now. There's a thread or two about the economy which might deserve revisiting in twelve months.

 

[Xelor]

To "necro" a thread means to dig it up ages and eons after it has dried up on the board.
So for instance, if a year from now heads are all rolling at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and no one has posted in the "I've never seen the Left run so fast" thread for five months prior, it is frowned upon to dig up the thread because it is considered "necrotic" or "dead".

There are a few threads that I think deserve an exception, this is only one of about five or six which merit a fresh look a year from now. There's a thread or two about the economy which might deserve revisiting in twelve months.

Red:
I should have been clearer.

I sussed what "necro'd" itself means as a descriptor of a thread and members actions in a given thread. It's the "frowned upon" part that I don't understand.

Specifically, I don't understand why, when an old thread reacquires new relevance, it's frowned upon for members to resume discourse in the old thread. It seems to me that resuming the discussion in the old thread abets members having one place from which to obtain a temporally complete contextual picture of the matter and what were folks' prior thoughts on it.

I don't understand why anyone'd want perspective to be harder, rather than easier, to obtain....

 

[Keridan]

Can a specific discussion thread be legally necroed if the subject matter "didn't age well"?

For instance, a certain member is already counting chickens and spiking the ball in the end zone on a specific current events story, and that story is still developing. It might be useful to go back to it a year from now.

Please be kind, this is an honest question.

Why not save the actual quotes? Gods know he gave you plenty in that thread. You could post a new one and take him to town without breaking any rules. Subjective rules are tough anyway. One mod might say okay and 6 months later, another one doesn't see that.

 

[JANFU]

To "necro" a thread means to dig it up ages and eons after it has dried up on the board.
So for instance, if a year from now heads are all rolling at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and no one has posted in the "I've never seen the Left run so fast" thread for five months prior, it is frowned upon to dig up the thread because it is considered "necrotic" or "dead".

There are a few threads that I think deserve an exception, this is only one of about five or six which merit a fresh look a year from now. There's a thread or two about the economy which might deserve revisiting in twelve months.

Me, I would start a new thread with links to the old thread.