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Cervantes · 07-30-2007, 11:56 AM

The infamous "What happened to TFP" thread was one of my few thread starts. It was an innocent question, posted by a returning MIA trying to catch up on what had transpired, that turned into a life of it's own.

I was stunned and discouraged to see what had happened in my absence from reading the thread..

I have to second the opinions of too strict rules when it comes to starting threads.
Necroing is considered really bad form on most other boards I have visited but here it is the expected norm.

I dunno about bandwidth, but couldn't there be some sort of archive maybe on a different domain? After a certain amount of time a thread is inactive it goes into an archive that is only used as reference and the topic is once again open for a new thread?

I dive heads first into discussions, sometimes they get heated but most of he time I end up making a fool of myself. When I first started visiting TFP that was accepted, it was even seen as the normal evolution of a contributing member. Now?... I dunno, something in the climate here has changed, everyone expects double references perfect behavior. The rules stifle creativity as they are now.. Necroing an old post isn't even a remotely decent solution, it is counter productive since people will only look at the OP and some of the answers and in the best case scenario try to start a discussion about that, not looking at the post that brought the thread back to life.

People who have been on boards around the internet is aware of this, they know that whatever question they have won't be answered by practicing necromancy, but the rules forbid opening up a new thread about a topic that has been discussed before.
It's a catch 22, your damned if you do and your damned if you don't so what's the point of even trying?

07-30-2007, 11:56 AM	#203 (permalink)
Cervantes Psycho Location: Above you	The infamous "What happened to TFP" thread was one of my few thread starts. It was an innocent question, posted by a returning MIA trying to catch up on what had transpired, that turned into a life of it's own. I was stunned and discouraged to see what had happened in my absence from reading the thread.. I have to second the opinions of too strict rules when it comes to starting threads. Necroing is considered really bad form on most other boards I have visited but here it is the expected norm. I dunno about bandwidth, but couldn't there be some sort of archive maybe on a different domain? After a certain amount of time a thread is inactive it goes into an archive that is only used as reference and the topic is once again open for a new thread? I dive heads first into discussions, sometimes they get heated but most of he time I end up making a fool of myself. When I first started visiting TFP that was accepted, it was even seen as the normal evolution of a contributing member. Now?... I dunno, something in the climate here has changed, everyone expects double references perfect behavior. The rules stifle creativity as they are now.. Necroing an old post isn't even a remotely decent solution, it is counter productive since people will only look at the OP and some of the answers and in the best case scenario try to start a discussion about that, not looking at the post that brought the thread back to life. People who have been on boards around the internet is aware of this, they know that whatever question they have won't be answered by practicing necromancy, but the rules forbid opening up a new thread about a topic that has been discussed before. It's a catch 22, your damned if you do and your damned if you don't so what's the point of even trying? __________________ - "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.." - "Religions take everything that your DNA naturally wants to do to survive and pro-create and makes it wrong." - "There is only one absolute truth and that is that there is only one absolute truth."