Originally posted by Beeryus:
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Originally posted by caswallawn_2k7:
not when the original thread died over a year ago making a response to the previouse posts compleatly pointless as them people could be long gone.
I was around when it was still a young thread and I'm still here. The topic is still relevant, and it's far better to resurrect an old thread that includes context and arguments on both sides, than to start a new one with neither context nor discussion.
The forum is set up in such a way that irrelevant posts naturally fall out of view. In the end, if it's irrelevant to today's audience, it will slide off into oblivion quickly enough. If you want to see it do that, why the heck are you bumping it?
Personally, I'm glad the issue was raised again even though the fellow who raised it doesn't share my opinion. At least he had the decency to allow my earlier comments (and those of others) to counterpoint his. You would have him restart the whole issue and those of us who disagreed with him would have to make the same arguments over again. That would be pointless and a waste of everyone's time.
Besides, if he'd started an all-new thread, there'd be some bright spark who would criticize him for starting up a new thread when the issue had already been discussed. Sadly, self-appointed forum police tend not to be happy no matter what you do.
Also, since most of the posts in this thread were posted in the last 24 hours, I'm not sure the thread can be called a necro anymore, LOL. In fact now, the most egregious violation seems to be the off-topic posts the thread is generating, hehe.
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