AWKWARD ZOMBIE

stop necroing things

How exactly am I necroing?

You're bringing back old threads without anything good to add.

This thread "died" in June. You posted again, and it is now August. The thread is back on the front page and is now "alive" again.

It isn't as bad as some other cases of necroing, where people will necro threads that are a year old, or more, but it can always be an annoyance for most people.

Is this your first forum? You seem really new to a lot of these usually normal concepts.

No, but I'm new here...

Generally just stick to topics on the first page of a forum, unless you're making your own thread. Then the search button is your friend. People will rip you apart if you make a thread that has been made before.

Also, the moderators are usually viewed as dicks here, apparently. If they lock a thread of your's or sound like they're picking on you, don't let it get to you. That's normal behavior.

Learn things, kid. It's easier if you actually browse a forum, look at what they like and dislike first before you actually join. Learn the ins and outs. Easier to figure stuff out that way.

Most of the forums I've been in were gaming (IGN, GTSPlus, etc...) and one forum about Chao (those little blue creatures from Sonic Adventure 1 and 2)

So you should know not to necro threads.

Used to stalk Katie on DA and I eventually ended up on Awkwardzombie.com. I then proceeded to stalk the forum for a period of time before I decided to join.

What Ame said. The rule is, that is if any of your fuckers read that goddamn thread like you are supposed to, is that if you have a valid reason to necro a thread then its okay. He did. Quit jumping down new members throats or I'll jump down your throat. I'm tired of seeing new people attacked for little shit.

Its a tough issue as to when a necro is okay or not. See, when a..
Oh, hang on a minute. Need a disclaimer.
THIS POST CONTAINS SERIOUS BUSINESS! IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR TEH LULZ, SKIP IT!

As I was saying, its a tough issue as to when its okay to necro a thread. Mainly, because threads die for a reason; its regular discussion points have been exhausted, and resurrecting a thread normally just degenerates it into off-topic subjects instead, like this for example. But there are two exceptions.
The first is when the post contains something that required a notable amount of effort or creativity - rezzing a thread in the Comics section to post an edit would count - under the premise that the moment of rez backlash is worth not having the effort go to waste.
The second is in this case: whereby while the thread did go inactive, a sufficient amount of time had passed or a new sub-topic has arisen, so that there's enough to talk about on the thread; its normally better to rez a thread than to make a new but identical one.
Buuuut... this thread is more of a gray area. In this case how alive the thread would become would be directly proportional to the number of new forumers, assuming that older forumers already had their say. Thus, it could be decided whether or not it should've been ressed by making an estimate of how many new guys there are, and in this case I'd say that yes, there are enough new people to make the resurrection a good thing.
Buuuut(again), RyuCat is new. There's little chance they actually considered how well the thread would do and instead just resurrected it for their own comment, which in itself isn't enough for a resurrection.

So in conclusion: it was a good thing that this thread was necro'd, but it was also right of the girls to say to him that it was the wrong thing to do.



Also, its called necro-ing, regardless of whether it was justified or not.


Well they could hardly have known that at the time!

Eris Discordia, just shut up.

It was already addressed in the post right before you, fucking drop it. I don't care what you think, it wasn't much of a necro -at all-. Its a post that follows the thread, its a good reasoning, and it is justified. Necros aren't bad if there is a good reason. Posting in a thread with a post that relates to a thread is a good reason.

And for Sneaky Petes sake, it was less than 2 months old, it isn't that big of a goddamned deal. Next post even -slightly- related to this gets deleted. Its our job to deal with this, not yours.

sorry

I joined the AZ forums because of the humor here. And the lack of restrictions.

Before I joined Awkward Zombie, I was part of BZPower. I joined it when I was 10, and kind of just stayed there. The website was getting annoying with all the rules they were making.