30th March 2012
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#1 | | Gear addict
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 313
Thread Starter | Let dead threads rest in peace
I don't think I've ever started a thread in these forums before but here is my moan for today.
Please stop replying to dead threads!
Seems like I've been reading a lot of threads lately that have been resurrected from the graveyard by someone who thinks replying to a thread that has long since past into the depths of the forum's servers and hasn't seen the light of day for a couple of years is a good idea.
I just got sucked into a post about Behringer and their "tubes" from the main forum page. When I went back to the start of the thread the first post was in 2007 and the last post was in October 2007. Someone, today, thought it would be a good to post a reply to that last post.
Where the hell do these people find these threads and why do they think that replying to something 3 and a half years old is useful?
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30th March 2012
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#2 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 2,581
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Originally Posted by anthonythecat  Where the hell do these people find these threads and why do they think that replying to something 3 and a half years old is useful? | It's from the Search function, and it is actively encouraged by the management and moderators here as a means to reduce the number of duplicate threads.
No one is forcing any of us to be here.
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30th March 2012
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#3 | | Gear maniac
Joined: Feb 2012 Location: Bay Area CA
Posts: 152
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I just put a note on my calender to necro post this a year from now on friday.
It's not easy being a troll you know. :P
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30th March 2012
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#4 | | Gear addict
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 313
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Originally Posted by PTbreaker It's not easy being a troll you know. :P | Yeah, it's a tough job man. The pay's lousy and you never get respect but someone's got to do it right?
Also like to apologise for the mistake I made in my original post. I said the behringer post was 3 1/2 years old. Just realised it 2012 already so I guess that makes it 4 1/2 years old.
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30th March 2012
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#5 | | Gear addict
Joined: Jan 2012 Location: London, UK
Posts: 313
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Originally Posted by PTbreaker I just put a note on my calender to necro post this a year from now on friday. |  | |
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30th March 2012
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#6 | | Gear addict
Joined: Jan 2005 Location: Tustin, CA
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Ya man, searching through old post and old gear is awesome. Figuring out how to use samplers from the 80 and searching about how other people use them is amazing. If I could reply to the post from the original users of all that gear in all that time, that'd be the ultimate!
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30th March 2012
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#7 | | Gear nut
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 134
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Old threads are great, so much info. This thread is a little trollish.
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30th March 2012
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#8 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 3,056
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Actually i kind of agree.
Sure the 'search' tool is great! Nothing wrong with bringing back a thread that you have a bolt on question for. It helps to see all of the commentary in one place as opposed to 3 different places.
What is frustrating when thread 'do you like MPC 3k?' is revived by someone to state ' yes i use it all the time'.
Bless
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30th March 2012
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#9 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Jul 2002
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Sometimes it's not intentional...people sometimes respond to posts in the "Similar Threads" list that's at the bottom of every page. This thread, or instance, has threads with last posts from 2002, 2006, 2007, and August and October of last year (all but one of which have "dead" in the title).
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30th March 2012
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#10 | | Lives for gear
Joined: May 2007 Location: London
Posts: 3,130
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Bump.
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30th March 2012
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#11 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Dec 2010
Posts: 2,581
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Originally Posted by vincentvangogo Bump. | ROTFL!! You win, Vincent.
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31st March 2012
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#12 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 2,743
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Actually, the old vintage thread is much warmer, and has more of presence.
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31st March 2012
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#13 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Feb 2009 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 1,079
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You reply at a moderate tempo, increase the threshold to lock to the thread groove.
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31st March 2012
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#14 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,047
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Originally Posted by brockorama You reply at a moderate tempo, increase the threshold to lock to the thread groove. | Bump , Bump , Bump , Bump ?
I suppose if you are making a necro reply it might be polite to include "sorry for the necro , I just wanted to ask"
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31st March 2012
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#15 | | Moderator
Joined: May 2004 Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 7,481
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Gearslutz is a free environment, people can do what they want. You can bring back old threads and no one is obligated to use the search function. Also I have seen many old threads be resurrected and people get some great information.
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31st March 2012
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#16 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Oct 2011 Location: Hertfordshire, UK
Posts: 833
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I see nothing wrong in digging up old threads, so long as the "resurrector" is staying on topic. I've done it myself.
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31st March 2012
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#17 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 1,038
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Originally Posted by Beat Poet I see nothing wrong in digging up old threads, so long as the "resurrector" is staying on topic. I've done it myself. | Ahh ,it's the curse of the living thread!  | |
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1st April 2012
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#18 | | Gear addict
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 313
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Seems like I'm in a minority of one then.
Oh well. That's nothing new  | |
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1st April 2012
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#19 | | Banned
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 174
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Bumb it!
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1st April 2012
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#20 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Dec 2010 Location: USA
Posts: 2,692
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Funny you mention this, OP.
An old thread of mine was recently shot with re-agent and brought back and is still a productive thread. Don't see anything wrong with noobs discovering an old one.
Bordering on trollish, I agree!
So lets let this thread die for good, eh?
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2nd April 2012
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#21 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 2,743
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Hey it was almost dead, but I just gave it a kiss of life: 
and another one: 
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5th April 2012
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#22 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Jul 2006 Location: GAINESVILLE FLORIDA
Posts: 1,498
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I'd like to feel FREEEE on the internet.....
I get enough of being bossed around by My Wife The rest of the day
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5th April 2012
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#23 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Dec 2010 Location: USA
Posts: 2,692
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Originally Posted by glenn Taylor I'd like to feel FREEEE on the internet.....
I get enough of being bossed around by My Wife The rest of the day | That's why I don't have a wife anymore.
No I get bossed on the net.
Go figure!
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10th April 2012
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#24 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Jul 2010 Location: Dolno Sonje, Sopiste, Macedonia
Posts: 996
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Frankly, I don't see why not to respond in old threads. If the new information is available concerning the topic, I find it much more irritating when posted in a new thread ignoring the old one.
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10th April 2012
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#25 | | Gear Guru
Joined: May 2008 Location: Mountain View, CA
Posts: 12,378
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Night of the Living Thread
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10th April 2012
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#26 | | Gear maniac
Joined: Dec 2008
Posts: 212
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Ack. The OP is completely wrong. We should be encouraging thread resurrection. That way all the info on one subject is in the same place (as much as possible at least), you don't have to read through a bunch of threads to find useful info, there is less clutter and noise in the forum, and people don't have to repeat points that they or somebody else said in another thread. The forum is a library that we can all contribute to. Most of the information that we deal with does not expire after a certain date. It's not a chat room and it's not Twitter.
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10th April 2012
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#27 | | The Audio Whisperer
Joined: Dec 2005 Location: Austin
Posts: 2,726
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Originally Posted by run, megalodon Ack. The OP is completely wrong. We should be encouraging thread resurrection. That way all the info on one subject is in the same place (as much as possible at least), you don't have to read through a bunch of threads to find useful info, there is less clutter and noise in the forum, and people don't have to repeat points that they or somebody else said in another thread. The forum is a library that we can all contribute to. Most of the information that we deal with does not expire after a certain date. It's not a chat room and it's not Twitter. | I approve this message.
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22nd June 2012
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#28 | | The Audio Whisperer
Joined: Dec 2005 Location: Austin
Posts: 2,726
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Ironic bump
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22nd June 2012
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#29 | | Lives for gear
Joined: Mar 2007 Location: West Coast
Posts: 1,951
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Originally Posted by donsolo Ironic bump | -1
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22nd June 2012
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#30 | | Lives for gear
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 3,154
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My favorite kind of thread resurrection is when some guy asks, in 2009, how to use some piece of equipment. He's in a hurry because it's an important gig. And then the answer comes, in 2012: "turn the big knob to the left, hth" as if the poor fool has been frozen in time for three years waiting for the answer.
haha.
-synthoid
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