On Thursday, 2 December 2021 at 15:03:47 UTC, D Lark wrote:
Because it does not seem like that from the tone of responses I have gotten: I did my due diligence, I believe, before posting my original reply to the old question. I had looked at the docs and also searched the forum. There is no need for the patronizing tone you have taken.
No one has been patronizing to you. They were just explaining the informal custom in these forums. Please don't take it the wrong way.
The forum software is a web interface to a newsgroup server. The software could be enhanced to prevent posting to old threads, but there's never been a need to (and people would still be able to post through the newsgroup server anyway). It's a fairly common convention across the internet (and has been for years) that reviving old threads is frowned upon (the term often used is "necroposting"). Normally, the warning provided is enough.
So let's leave this thread to Rest in Peace. And next time you attempt to post an old thread here, please allow the forum software to do it's thing when it warns you. Thanks!
