Can the mods not lock the threads...? Not that I do, but if I wanted to post on an old thread - I would... That's the nature of forums.
Mods lock them or it will keep happening... :/
Topic: Growing number of necro posters are taking advantage of old threads - page 2. (Read 2232 times)
November 11, 2014, 08:50:13 AM
November 11, 2014, 08:47:59 AM
Necro bumping isn't forbidden, however, if the post breaks any other forum rules (like hilariouandco mentioned), report it.
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November 11, 2014, 07:03:08 AM
Necro bumps should be reported if there's no valuable or relevant information in them and are clearly a pointless post, but I don't know how someone can 'stealth necro' as bumping an old thread usually has the opposite effect and draws attention to the user as opposed to just posting regularly in a recent thread.
November 11, 2014, 06:56:48 AM
I don't know if anyone's noticed this, but there's a growing number of newbies who seem to be specifically targeting threads that are a year or two old and stealth necroing them and posting either completely incoherent or only slightly relevant post. How should we treat this? Is it spam? I'm inclined to believe so because of the way they respond but the problem is we'd have to dig through their post history because I think they've gotten better at writing English and are disguising their spam better.
These threads are often so old that they've become inactive and they seem to be deliberately trying to start them up again to bump up their post count and get people to respond, then you also have other newbies who are doing the same to bump up their post count as well so it seems like a legitimate conversation, the reason I know this is because I often see posts I've written back in 2012 on these threads and people are responding without looking at the dates.
These threads are often so old that they've become inactive and they seem to be deliberately trying to start them up again to bump up their post count and get people to respond, then you also have other newbies who are doing the same to bump up their post count as well so it seems like a legitimate conversation, the reason I know this is because I often see posts I've written back in 2012 on these threads and people are responding without looking at the dates.
I'm reporting them as I see them, and everyone else should too.
November 11, 2014, 06:48:58 AM
I don't know if anyone's noticed this, but there's a growing number of newbies who seem to be specifically targeting threads that are a year or two old and stealth necroing them and posting either completely incoherent or only slightly relevant post. How should we treat this? Is it spam? I'm inclined to believe so because of the way they respond but the problem is we'd have to dig through their post history because I think they've gotten better at writing English and are disguising their spam better.
These threads are often so old that they've become inactive and they seem to be deliberately trying to start them up again to bump up their post count and get people to respond, then you also have other newbies who are doing the same to bump up their post count as well so it seems like a legitimate conversation, the reason I know this is because I often see posts I've written back in 2012 on these threads and people are responding without looking at the dates.
These threads are often so old that they've become inactive and they seem to be deliberately trying to start them up again to bump up their post count and get people to respond, then you also have other newbies who are doing the same to bump up their post count as well so it seems like a legitimate conversation, the reason I know this is because I often see posts I've written back in 2012 on these threads and people are responding without looking at the dates.
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