General / Off-Topic If you resurrect a years old debate in a new topic is it necromacy, or reincarnation?
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Many necromacy and reincarnation in these forums ...
Ian Phillips
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It's necromacy and gets a stake through the heart when one lurches back to 'life'.
Minonian
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Who's the real monster?.. Well obviously Frankenstein's Monster. The clue is in the name.
What you do is you take the undead abomination by the hand and you lead it clumping and falteringly over to the dinner table where you offer it a nice cup of tea and cakes. You tell it what's been happening in the forums and politely ask its opinion, telling it to ignore the pitch-forked mob baying outside.
The resurrected corpse is now composed of a different set of people who may not have been around the first time the monster walked the Earth. There've been new people sewn into it. And the topic itself may have new aspects due to things changing unexpectedly... or unexpectedly not changing.
What you do is you take the undead abomination by the hand and you lead it clumping and falteringly over to the dinner table where you offer it a nice cup of tea and cakes. You tell it what's been happening in the forums and politely ask its opinion, telling it to ignore the pitch-forked mob baying outside.
The resurrected corpse is now composed of a different set of people who may not have been around the first time the monster walked the Earth. There've been new people sewn into it. And the topic itself may have new aspects due to things changing unexpectedly... or unexpectedly not changing.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the Mods? <grin>My toghts exactly my dear rorshack.
Robert Maynard
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Minonian
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The old trash repacked is still the old trash. So, if they have any problem with it? You point them tovard the old trash. If its not good enough for them? For my part, its one of the reasons why we got the ignore button.
Nuff said, or be muffled.
But let's use an analoge about this question. And see from another aspect. If the court verdict beign birth, you have a chance to complain. But you don't get an infinite chance! And if you try to complain it is better you have a pretty good reason for it! Otherwise, its denied, and your butt beign kicked, because time is too precious to waste to the old closed case.
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All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.
The forum would get very quiet if we just directed people to old threads. It has been going for many years and many of the topics have been discussed and discussed ad nauseam.
This thread itself wouldn't exist as it is a subject that has been chewed over many times.
The forum would get very quiet if we just directed people to old threads. It has been going for many years and many of the topics have been discussed and discussed ad nauseam.
This thread itself wouldn't exist as it is a subject that has been chewed over many times.
Minonian
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True that. But know the difference between regular talk, (no problem with it) and flame war sparking stupidity, and closed debates, uncomfortable problems. Not to mention its your decision to enter into a thread or not? This is not Like FB or Blogs where you get everything to your face, with little or no regulations.
There are quite a few mature folk who frequent this forum, and I'm not just talking about age. They tend to work as dampers on the conversation. Some of the best threads here have started by some troublemaker just trying to spark a flame war. If a thread does happen to catch fire, we have Mods that can come in and contain the damage. The decision to close a thread is never taken lightly. They do sometimes review their position and reopen a thread.
There was talk a while back about the problem of threads that'd been brought back to life after laying dormant for many months. The problem with those sorts of threads are that sometimes the information contained in the thread would now be out of date, but a lot of the ideas that had already been discussed within them wouldn't really need spelling out again if the new members to the forum knew of their existence. The suggestion had been to mark old posts by using a different colour. Has that idea been implemented?
Ian Phillips
Volunteer Moderator
We were thinking of black on black
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What is the most undead Thread, Ted?
We were thinking of black on black
Waylon Jennings! Hillbilly Goth!
What is the most undead Thread, Ted?
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Minonian
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True there is no point to continue the same debate under a dozes of threads.
About the color marking? Not a bad idea! Some of the time the people are just not waching the date, and answering questions which is long outdated, and / or the person asked it is not even present anymore... What's the point? But, well... It might be causing some drops in the cases like this, but not too many, not all! Because? They are yust don't care about the when?
LOL! let's settle with light grey on white, and dark grey on black.We were thinking of black on black
We were thinking of black on black
I do believe the developer of this forum is a Douglas Adams fan...
"Every time you try and operate these weird black controls that are labeled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up in black to let you know you’ve done it."
Minonian
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Meh! The motor dont let me to answer with just a smile.
So i put it 4 which is 8 character. Minonian
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I guess the dead undead threads.
Anyhow?
"Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation
Deep space is my dwelling place
The stars my destination"
Good book.
One of my faw's.
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