@morbiuswilters said:
@dhromed said:For future reference, I disagree with that sort of strictness. I don't mind this particular bump and creating a new thread seems odd to me.
For future reference, I hate you.
This is less annoying than the "Me too!" rezzes we're used to, but I still dislike it because the people in this thread have moved on, stopped caring, what-have-you. So you end up with people seeing the thread at the top, assuming all of the comments are recent, and replying to people who haven't been to the site in 16 months. Then you get a backlash of "Read the date, idiots" and so-on. This drowns out the interesting conversation that the rez might have provided.
My criteria for a "useful rez" is one that would make a good post on its own (possibly with a callback to the original thread). At which point, why not just make a new thread? You'll get more attention, fresh eyes on the topic and people will correctly see that your post is the main topic, not a post somebody made several months or years ago. I didn't lock this one because I don't feel as strongly about this "rule" as I do about people rezzing 3 year old threads to say "I, too, hate it when Windows crashes, good sirs!"
I
see your points about bringing back old threads and the possible
confusion it might cause if readers try to reply to very old comments. I'll be more careful on this forum if that is a concern.
But here
are some counterpoints since a nice discussion about it got started: I
wanted to emphasize the time span of 2 years to show just how frozen in
awefulness this software was. Also, I don't know about others, but when I
look at threads, I check dates of past posts, especially when the
poster says the thread is being 'bumped'. I suppose with many followup
responses that could get lost. But imagine how damning a thread like
this would be against a bad piece of software if there were similar
complaints occurring over years and years. It has more sting that way...
It is my hope that someone from Oracle sees this and uses it as
justification for either upgraded their products, or deprecating the old
crappy ones being used by clients.