Is it allowed to necro / bump threads?

[Lazy_BerZerker]

Hi, I only come by here very rarely, so I don't know much about how this site operates.

Once every few months or so I get inspired to look up questions I have about TMNT, and in my experience this place is by far the best place to find that. Usually people have already created a thread, asked these questions and gotten their answers.

Occasionally I'd also like to write something, but then I realize these threads may be several years old, and I don't know if I would just get people mad at me for writing in them by then?

So I thought I should just make sure, is it allowed for me to write in older threads?
Also I wanted to see if this question was already asked, but this Questions/Comments/Suggestions forum has only 10 threads displaying for me, of which five are stickied despite I know I made a thread here 10 years ago.

TL:DR is necroing of old threads allowed?

[Andrew NDB]

It's better than making new threads about exactly the same thing, IMO.

[Jester]

It really depends on the thread, but for the most part Andrew's right.

[IndigoErth]

I've never understood why some people get mad about it, but that's mostly been other sites, not here. :)

edit: Some here are more likely to point out that a thread already exists rather than get mad about an old thread coming back to life.

[sdp]

Necro bumping is great

[IndigoErth]

...can't unhear innuendo... gross...

[Leo656]

...can't unhear innuendo... gross...

You're terrific.

[newfan]

With shifts in members over time it gives chance for more to discuss I guess, I mean it's that or you end up with duplicate threads as others have said.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

How fun is it to enter a discussion dated let's say February 2004, and over 50 % of all participants have left, some of them even banned.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

How fun is it to enter a discussion dated let's say February 2004, and over 50 % of all participants have left, some of them even banned?

[IndigoErth]

I dunno, I mean even if some of those particular people would no longer weigh in, their thoughts may still be valuable input from around the time a thing was current, alongside newer discussion in hindsight or for those who weren't in the loop at the time.

[CyberCubed]

I just post in any thread I want, time has no meaning for me anymore.

[Prowler]

OP's question makes sense. A lot of forums will punish you for necroposting. That or you'll get a bunch of users complaining and telling you not to that ever again.

[Musashi]

I've got something to say on this subject, but I think I'll wait at least 5 years and then bump the thread.

[ProphetofGanja]

There are no rules here

[CyberCubed]

Anything is fair game. I love looking back at old threads from 2003-2004 when everyone was like half the age they are now.

[Musashi]

Anything is fair game. I love looking back at old threads from 2003-2004 when everyone was like half the age they are now.

Five-eighths, in my case.

[Lazy_BerZerker]

Thank you all for your kind and welcoming replies.

Just to clarify, the threads I was looking at lately were closer to five years old than fifteen years old.

Now I believe that I can occasionally revive threads that have been inactive for a couple of years without too much fear of reprisal.

If I should happen to bother anyone doing so, please just inform me, and I'll adapt better to the ways of this forum.

Cheers everyone!

[CyberCubed]

I wish I could find the very first thread I posted here but I can't find it. Most likely it was in 2005.

[Prowler]

I wish I could find the very first thread I posted here but I can't find it. Most likely it was in 2005.

Yeah, these forums only allow you to go so far when searching for an user's thread history. You gotta make a ton of them for it to be hard to find your very first ones, though.