What does a "Necro" comment mean?

[EBCDIC Me]

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[gussmed]

Necromancy. To raise from the dead. To bring an old thread back to the top of a forum by adding a post years after the thread was finished.

Particularly relevant if the new post addresses the original poster directly, when said poster probably has stopped reading the thread years ago.

[EBCDIC Me]

I think the moderators should auto lock the thread after x time has passed. That way no one gets their feelings hurt. IMHO.

[gussmed]

Or, you could check the date of a thread that's 6 years old before replying to it. That's the usual solution.

[EBCDIC Me]

No, the solution is the Moderators should lock the thread. If its avail to me to comment on then I need to do no more.

[Justice]

Originally posted by EBCDIC Man:

I think the moderators should auto lock the thread after x time has passed. That way no one gets their feelings hurt. IMHO.

I don't agree with this. New comments could contribute or be relevant to the topic. Unless it's straight forward question for gameplay progression, but if it's lore, theories, strategy, game world disscusion then it should not be locked as there new opinions and information could be added to it

[Cursed Hawkins]

Originally posted by EBCDIC Man:

No, the solution is the Moderators should lock the thread. If its avail to me to comment on then I need to do no more.

Topics necroed can be accepted as long as the comment doing it still contributes or is relevant to the topic at hand, if it's just a comment saying "I like ♥♥♥♥" then yeah it should be locked at that point.

[EBCDIC Me]

Originally posted by Justice:

Originally posted by EBCDIC Man:

I think the moderators should auto lock the thread after x time has passed. That way no one gets their feelings hurt. IMHO.

I don't agree with this. New comments could contribute or be relevant to the topic. Unless it's straight forward question for gameplay progression, but if it's lore, theories, strategy, game world disscusion then it should not be locked as there new opinions and information could be added to it

Agree completely i think. I made a comment (in jest) to maybe stimulate some newer thoughts of newer players. But I get a jerk puttin me down instead.

[Geargrinder]

So someone who simply does not agree with you is a jerk and puts you down? That attitude will get you far in life...

[penner3]

Or maybe just don't worry about it when someone criticizes you. You want to necro a thread, go ahead and do it I say.

[Philtre]

The problem with necro-ing threads is that games change and old threads can have old information. I've seen many occasions when people got totally PO'd and rant-y that a game was "buggy" because mechanics / locations / items mentioned in a thread did not work in the current game... having apparently completely missed that the thread was several years old and referred to an earlier build. I would support the "auto-lock after a certain amount of time" option, or at least a "this thread is X years old, are you sure you want to add to it" confirmation pop-up.

[Sputnik]

'Necro' is the territorial cry of old forum tragics hoping to hush any newbies who stray onto their turf.

It works like this:

1. You follow the Steam Forum Guide advice you should first first search to see if there's a thread created for a particular topic you want to discuss.
   
2. You find one and contribute - only to be welcome with tribal cries of "Necro"
   
3. OK then, so you start a new thread on the topic. Only to be given an extensive list of links to old forums addressing your topic.

It's clear now you are NOT one of the cool kids. Thank to the back-seat moderators.

Meanwhile, Steam is resolutely silent on just how old a thread must be before it's considered obsolete. This whole nonsense could be fixed simply by having an auto timer-lock on each thread.

[Artek [General]]

Its just a common courtesy thing to not revive threads that are too old, because 9 cases out of 10 they are just no longer relevant.

You can revive a month or two old threads, maybe like up to a year...
But then some people revive thread from like 2017 or something and its like - why? And more often then not its not even a justified revive - the thread is like full of 3 pages of people having a dialogue, it was over for 5 years, and then some a-hole comes in, posts some completely useless comment like "yeah, me too" and now the thread is back to the top of the list.

And you know what's the worst thing? Many people don't notice that its an old thread and start actively replying to it again, including both the OP and the initial replies, so its like a new sub-thread is being born out of thin air on page 4 reviving the old discussions and debates that were already done and gone.

Most cases its just not justified. There are some threads that are worth to bring up every once in a while, like some ancient technical issues that is still present to this day and you reply with "Fix A still works in 2024" or something, but such opportunities are very rare and like... Do you think anyone actually cares to go to page 5 to confirm what's the last relevant reply was? I usually do it only to check who the hell just revived a useless unproductive thread from 2015 out of sheer curiosity and to post obligatory "necro" if relevant.

[Sputnik]

I'll make my devastating reply to that here in May 2025

[Tresh]

Originally posted by EBCDIC Man:

I think the moderators should auto lock the thread after x time has passed. That way no one gets their feelings hurt. IMHO.

So, you got called out for necroing a thread, got your fee-fees hurt and are now crying about it?

[EBCDIC Me]

Originally posted by Tresh:

Originally posted by EBCDIC Man:

I think the moderators should auto lock the thread after x time has passed. That way no one gets their feelings hurt. IMHO.

So, you got called out for necroing a thread, got your fee-fees hurt and are now crying about it?

No u idiot. His feelings were hurt. Not mine!