Bumping Threads WTF
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@mott555 said:
I felt like that once. Then I JFGI.@mott555 said:
@Zecc said:
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Is your job title Grand Nagus by any chance?
TDEMSYR. Now I wish I knew what this was about.
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@Zecc said:
Wait... did you TDEMSYR yourself ?? What the hell?@mott555 said:
I felt like that once. Then I JFGI.@mott555 said:
@Zecc said:
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Is your job title Grand Nagus by any chance?
TDEMSYR. Now I wish I knew what this was about.
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@Zecc said:
@Zecc said:
Exactly.@mott555 said:
Wait... did you TDEMSYR yourself ?? What the hell?@mott555 said:
I felt like that once. Then I JFGI.@Zecc said:
TDEMSYR. Now I wish I knew what this was about....
Is your job title Grand Nagus by any chance?
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@mikeTheLiar said:
@Ben L. said:
@bjolling said:
Not anymore.Is it 2012 already?
Yes.Shit! The apocalypse DID happen!
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@WTF said in Bumping Threads WTF:
@tster said:
years from now this thread will be bumped.
Wow, you were right!!Righter than you expected
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@ekolis said in Bumping Threads WTF:
Since this thread was originally from 2006, and revived once in 2009 before lying dormant 3 more years until now, does that make it a double necropost?
Let's track the necros:
Posted by @tofu in 2006
Necro by @wtf in 2009
Necro by @ben_lubar in 2012
Necro by @spamcourt in 2013
Necro by @mikeTheLiar in 2014
Necro by @fbmac in 2017
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Guest said in Bumping Threads WTF:
years from now this thread will be bumped.
Good prediction! Lets have another!
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@El_Heffe said in Bumping Threads WTF:
@boomzilla said:
" from sol "sun" (see sol)
@boomzilla said:If we accept the original dickweedery, I suppose you could pedantic dickweed out of it by taking a page from blakeyrat and say that our solar system is also taking a page from Walt Whitman: "I am large, I contain multitudes."
The original statement was correct and not really pedantic dickweedery. . Solar system should only refer to our system due to the origin of the word solar. However, in all fairness, solar system is one of those phrases that has become so common and well known that it has become generic in usage, largely because nobody ever calls the sun "sol" -- it's just "the sun".. It's like saying "filming a movie" even though no film is involved. "Digitally videoing a movie" just doesn't sound right. Or "dial the phone" even though almost no phones have dials any more. Everyone knows what you mean so we just continue to use it even though it's wrong. And that's OK. As long as people understand what you mean there's really no problem.I see...
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Even the thread linked in the OP was later bumped in 2013, after the initial 2006 bump.
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@fbmac Finally a necro to be proud of! Now that you have fulfilled your lifetime achievement are you going to delete yourself, only to appear in 2020 for a monumental necro?
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GODDAMNIT @FBMAC!
Hey, NodBaby didn't say it, I assumed someone should...
I swear, the fucking software is starting to act in the same way mods do. You are terrible parents, mods! Terrible!
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@Onyx said in Bumping Threads WTF:
You are
terriblelazy parents, mods!
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@tofu said in Bumping Threads WTF:
What idiot replies to a three year old thread??
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@Boner said in Bumping Threads WTF:
@tofu said in Bumping Threads WTF:
What idiot replies to a three year old thread??
Not @fbmac. Technically, the thread is 10+ years old.
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@tofu said in Bumping Threads WTF:
What idiot replies to a three year old thread??
it took us a long time to find an answer, but we found it. The answer is @fbmac.
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What thread replies to a three year old idiot?
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@spamcourt said in Bumping Threads WTF:
Well, I don't agree that the people who necropost are to blame. I think it's an obvious usability flaw, the software should either show a message when a thread hasn't had replies in X days, or lock/archive it (and that's not just Community Server's fault, most forums still don't do this). I personally would color-code the age of posts, and allow "bump-less" replies too (in case you just want to add some information to an old thread for some reason).
Of course that is an inherent problem of the "forum" format. People come and go, and they still want to discuss things that were discussed 6 years ago, so you either have the same thread being created once every few months or the same thread being bumped once every few months.
@end alt confirmed
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@spamcourt said in Bumping Threads WTF:
allow "bump-less" replies too (in case you just want to add some information to an old thread for some reason)
What's the point of a 'bump-less' post? No-one's gonna see it unless they look for it, and no-one's gonna look for it if they don't know it's there. At least with a 'bumping' post, people can see that there's a new reply without requiring clairvoyance.
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@RaceProUK I could see it maybe being useful for technical problems that become irrelevant in new versions:
from SomeUser:
Thing don't workfrom Dev:
Add "-makethingwork" to the command linefrom SomeUser:
Thanks it works nowfrom Dev (later):
The new version has thing working by defaultAlthough even in that case, having the last post bump the thread wouldn't really hurt.
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@Onyx said in Bumping Threads WTF:
You are terrible parents, mods! Terrible!
Hey, I've got a hard enough time with my daughters! I don't need to worry about raising SkyNet, too!
It takes a village, you know!
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@Jarry said in Bumping Threads WTF:
@spamcourt said in Bumping Threads WTF:
Well, I don't agree that the people who necropost are to blame. I think it's an obvious usability flaw, the software should either show a message when a thread hasn't had replies in X days, or lock/archive it (and that's not just Community Server's fault, most forums still don't do this). I personally would color-code the age of posts, and allow "bump-less" replies too (in case you just want to add some information to an old thread for some reason).
Of course that is an inherent problem of the "forum" format. People come and go, and they still want to discuss things that were discussed 6 years ago, so you either have the same thread being created once every few months or the same thread being bumped once every few months.
@end alt confirmed
Coldmapping!
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@RaceProUK said in Bumping Threads WTF:
What's the point of a 'bump-less' post? No-one's gonna see it unless they look for it, and no-one's gonna look for it if they don't know it's there. At least with a 'bumping' post, people can see that
We have bumpless posts. Deleted posts don't bump.
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@hungrier this one was fake
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@fbmac said in Bumping Threads WTF:
@hungrier this one was fake
Nah, that's just some custom CSS someone had.
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And the link in the original post to the now 15-year-old thread on Linux questions still works.
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@devjoe Unlike most of the reply links in this very thread...
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@anotherusername Yeah, IIRC it was borked during a migration. Dunno why it hasnt been fixed yet.
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@pie_flavor said in Bumping Threads WTF:
Dunno why it hasnt been fixed yet.
It literally cannot be fixed. But, you're welcome to try!
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@Tsaukpaetra Well, yes it could. Just re-import specifically the reply-to fields from the old unmigrated database.
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@Tsaukpaetra Why exactly can't it be fixed? Seems relatively straightforward.
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@Tsaukpaetra @pie_flavor @anonymous234 At the very least, if we know that all or very nearly all "reply-to" fields older than a specific date are wrong, just delete them.
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@pie_flavor said in Bumping Threads WTF:
@Tsaukpaetra Well, yes it could. Just re-import specifically the reply-to fields from the old unmigrated database.
You assume that the "old un-migrated database" had correct values.
@anonymous234 said in Bumping Threads WTF:
@Tsaukpaetra Why exactly can't it be fixed? Seems relatively straightforward.
If it was straightforward the issue would not have happened, no?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Bumping Threads WTF:
If it was straightforward the issue would not have happened, no?
I guess it's more a matter of
Anyway, paging @ben_lubar .
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Bumping Threads WTF:
You assume that the "old un-migrated database" had correct values.
Yes, I assume that replies only became this fuckered after the migration and not before. Am I wrong?
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@pie_flavor said in Bumping Threads WTF:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Bumping Threads WTF:
You assume that the "old un-migrated database" had correct values.
Yes, I assume that replies only became this fuckered after the migration and not before. Am I wrong?
You seem also to assume there has been only one migration.
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@Tsaukpaetra No, I don't.
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@pie_flavor This was such a happy corpse molestation, with such a great corpse, until the complaining started.
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@Gribnit Lucky you're here, so we can direct all the complaining towards your presence.
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@pie_flavor Well, as long as it's just at my presence.
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@pie_flavor said in Bumping Threads WTF:
Yes, I assume that replies only became this fuckered after the migration and not before. Am I wrong?
Before the frist migration:
- CommunityServer;
- PARP!
I'm not sure your assumption holds.
Filed under: a moment of silence for all the post tags and edited thread titles lost.
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@Zecc That post was partially comprehensible.
Either replies borked while CS was in operation, or they borked when migrating it to Discourse. If it's the former, there's got to be backups somewhere. If it's the latter, then just re-import them.
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@pie_flavor said in Bumping Threads WTF:
@Zecc That post was partially comprehensible.
Either replies borked while CS was in operation, or they borked when migrating it to Discourse. If it's the former, there's got to be backups somewhere. If it's the latter, then just re-import them.
Your assumptions are overflowing the stack!
