Topic: Bringing back the old forgotten threads. (Read 194 times)

Then the next thing to do is to lock this thread, sometimes people needed to do Little research before creating topics. So far, there where lot and series of post created by many users even though those threads not active merely using the search options bring them back to the person than just asking a repeated questions that would later leads to spamming.

It depends I think. As long as your post is related or something new that happened in the recent world would be ok. I think it's ok to do that but it is still at the moderator's discretion I think.

You can personally do it by keeping a database on your notetaking app or watchlist here in the forum.

Immediately I saw the topic I recalled that the same topic was created recently in Meta and it received some response. Keeping old and new Topics alive. It is still active and not deleted.

The reason for the search option is to research on topic or areas of interest. You can always search for any information you need in both new and old threads using the search option. There are no need resurrection old threads except if there is an important upgrade, discovery, or need for review. But inspiration can be drawn from old threads to write new posts. But it shouldn't be copy-and-paste stuff, but quality work that will benefit the community.

Bringing back old threads is called as Necrobumping, which is people continuously make reply to those old threads; they are old enough but still possibly good threads but again in some how ideal only to bump for the information, and its not appropriate just for making a reply for having a count post for signatures. If you just need an information right there ideal to use a the quote or hyperlink for your reference

Pardon my peculiarities, I like given my advice to these ranks users because I feels that they haven't seen those threads that's states rules other, although I am still a newbie that doesn't know mush to give out to others but still share the little ideas that might help others.

OP, you talk about newbies as blind puppies who don't know where to go on the forum. Instead, I would recommend that every newbie learn how to use the search so that they have a complete overview of all the topics that have ever existed on the forum. People have different interests, so it's easier to give them the freedom to choose reading, especially since the forum does not prohibit this.
But as for the old topics, sometimes you may come across a report from one of the reporters as a post called "necro."
But beyond that, I also agree that there are topics like this one that I would bring up from time to time. You can do it yourself, although some authors do it themselves.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I don't think you've said anything that should be considered wrong by airing your view. I'm a lover of history and I think you've a point in your suggestion. However, the type of old threads I would love to see revived are threads that discussed the early days of Bitcoin and those funny less than $500 ATH predictions made. I meant threads from the inception of this forum to 2015. I read some of those threads and I realize how greatly things have changed here, including posting habits and ranking up.

Does "bringing back" an old thread mean wanting to revive the discussion? I doubt that anyone has my thoughts on the importance of a topic. Even if you try to bump it up with a new reply, it doesn't necessarily inspire other people's intentions to discuss it anymore.

Now take an example with a forum rules topic in this board. If you find it important, you'd read carefully so you wouldn't think that forgetting old threads would result in a user being banned

Old thread, if want to be alive, can be bumped by the topic author (must be one bump per 24 hours and old bumps must be deleted) or by forum members with organic questions, answers and discussions (won't be deleted).

If you want any thread to be back to actively, join it and discuss, just don't spam.

Op, it will not be a bad idea if you can make your post readable. Not about your grammar, but about punctuations. If you review your post, you may understand that there's no use of period (.) throughout your post.


I have seen a similar post requesting old threads to be forcefully brought back to life. If there be any thread that needs to be recycled or bumped, it will happen naturally. How do I mean, that post can be found through search option and then be bumped. Besides, there's some thread that the information in them is no longer valid with the present situation, bumping them will cause contradiction. Such can be seen in the speculation board.


If what you meant here is that users might be banned because they couldn't read old posts where the forum rules are written. This is wrong, the important threads are pinned at the top of every board.

So far as it's important and the reply you want to make in the thread correspondents, commenting on it to bring it to the front headline of the board isn't disallowed and I have seen many old thread too that are being moved from far back line of the board to the first page. For the rules and regulations it's actually pinned in the first page of the board so I doubt any newbie will miss it. As for old thread, no doubt we can learn alot from them as I also learned a vital information from an old battle between two users on a particular thread over a particular users copying someone picture on the internet and the argument was if the action can also be called plagerism or copy pasting.
Here is the link to that particular old thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.55511429

If any thread gets so important and is not supposed to die out, admins of this community will pin the thread or topic but if it's not pin, that means that such topic can be brought back in other new topic by some other users. I am not saying your idea is wrong but every day on the forum their are countless thread that is being created and those new topic make some old topic to be inactive but it doesn't mean that they are completely dead because this forum have an option to add topic to watch a list, so if you are watching a topic and you feeling it's becoming dead, you can drop a new comment there to make the thread come up again.

I think its okay to update those old threads as long as the information given is very much related to the original post and pretty much useful to the people who had been replying to that thread as well. Its more appropriate thn creating a new thread. But there's always going ot be someone out there who wil be creating a new thread when there is a new progress coming out.

Its the spam that is more off an issue. When someone just go into that old thread and then insert a link not related to the OP.

I doubt this, as most newbies who come to this forum these days are always good at creating new threads expressing themselves and using them as a form of introduction. On this thread, a lot of members always take the time to drop links to those rules and guidelines on how they can survive the forum.

With the rules being stated out to them, it is left to them to follow them up. Because it will be cumbersome for them to cover, others also try to make it simple by breaking them rather than to their understanding, pointing out the ones that they believe newbies should be aware of. Sometimes their ignorance is actually what gets them to break the rules.



New ideas are always welcomed to be studied and discussed; this is to be applicable to other discussions that do not concern the forum rules. If I understood the OP correctly, the Topic is centered on the rules that newbies are not aware of, so instead of creating an entire new thread with new rules and ideas that will be a little complicated to some, It's also important to note that Rules are what govern an organization and keep it going, so constantly changing them won't be healthy. Changes can be made, no doubt, but the main thread where the rules were first shared will always be referenced, or they will even be updated on that same thread. but for the official and non-official rules of the forum.

I don't think old threads have been jettison and they have not in any way out leave their purpose. Those threads of the past that have really contributed to this forum are still made reference to and to give directions on matters being discussed, so they have not except for a random thread that has no need or fulfilled any purpose in the past. You don't just wake a random post up because it is an old thread.

I think such thread already existed at the meta section where a member speak about same thing, although I don't really know if is active or deleted but I guess if you use the search button you might find it. Now what you should know is that, those thread aren't that relevant despite they carry reasonable information but those who seeks for additional knowledge may easily searched them and get the necessary things needed.

Maybe I should apologize for post the thread here, but nevertheless, I do have to say old threads should not be thrown away just like that, is good to aqure new knowledge but that doesn't mean that we should just dump the old ones that has values and I believe that some of those threads have help people in some ways so it shouldn't be forgotten like that so it can help others.

Op, you should have posted this on the meta board since it's related to the forum. Regarding your idea, there's no need to bring old threads back to the top when we can explore new ideas instead. Time moves forward, and there will always be new threads and fresh ideas to discuss, making it unnecessary to revive old ones. If any newbies or forum members are searching for past discussions, they can use the search bar or browse through the oldest pages to find what they're looking for.

Hope it will not be a bad idea if we talk about this? Some people will be like, what's that? But it's something we might like to give a second thought about.
Bringing back the old threads, on this forum with my little knowledge and experience I see that several posts that people don't comment any more do go to the last page and newbies don't know about this threads, some of the high ranked members have also forgotten about this threads too, so I do suggest some of us do comment on the important threads so they can come back to page one for all of us who has forgotten them sees it and remember.
Some users do get band because they have forgotten some of his threads that states forum rules. If I say something wrong please correct I will take corrections.