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Revisiting Old Discussion Threads
What exactly is the problem with necroposting, especially on a wiki? How has his post impeded you or anyone else at all? He tried to contribute what he thought was useful information. Of course, useful is a subjective term, as you can tell by the disagreement in this thread; can you blame him for that?
Take a moment and think about it to yourself: Why do people hate necro posting? If you can give me one decent answer that makes sense, I'll give you a cookie and let you win this thread (not that there's anything to win).
It's you and Yinato who are constantly bringing up the issues other than "necroposting", he's simply giving you a response. Of course, by your logic, it's somehow his wrongdoing.
This is the why people no longer enjoy contributing to the wiki and has accrued the bad reputation it has; stupid shit like this happens to the people who try to help.
Let me quote the "almighty" Blargel and say:
inb4 I get in trouble for this post.
Again with the sarcasm, huh? I've been reprimanding you repeatedly because you have this sort of attitude, not because you have opinions that don't match with mine. You could easily make the same points you just did without sounding like an ass. You do bring up some valid points though so I will attempt to address them one by one. I hope this makes it more clear what I am trying to achieve.
Although others hate it, I have nothing against the act of necroposting itself. The problem I have is with necroposting that doesn't have anything meaningful. You'll notice that I did not say anything about this or this since something new was actually brought up in both posts. That sort of information and questioning is fresh while still being relevant to the threads so people who are notified about it might actually be interested. Reiterating old information, however, would only serve to confuse and annoy the people who are notified.
Unfortunately, from my experience, the majority of necroposting that occurs is the sort that is meaningless. After talking it out with him - respectfully, I might add - I understand now that he was trying to add information. Unfortunately, from my point of view, he failed to do so. My last post which you just replied to was an attempt to give some guidelines on how to avoid the problem int he future.
About the "jumping topics" remark I made, he appeared to change the subject to re-adding that one line to the article and then immediately ask if the discussion really needs to continue here. I may have misinterpreted it, but it sounded like he was trying to pass this thread off as a discussion of the article and not of the original topic. If that's not the case, then I apologize.
I don't believe I have anything else I need to reply to since you look like you are just trying to slander the wiki and myself by twisting my words.
I'd also like to apologize for how big this blew up into and for crapping up the recent changes. I had intended for this to be a quick 1 on 1 to help Doomsday31415 avoid future trouble, but I failed to keep it brief.
Creating new threads on a wiki is just as bad (if not worse) as necroposting. At least you have some context with a necropost! If this were a forum where threads that are old fall out of view, it'd be a different story.
You thought I jumped topics simply because several of the replies I was referencing would be better suited for the talk page. Deciding whether or not the necroposts were meaningful should have ended hours ago when they sparked new discussion on the topics.
But it didn't spark new discussions on those pages (referring to the spirit weapon and rest discussions). The discussion on your user page is about necroposting, to which you did jump topics...numerous times.
Also, the entire first part of your reply is completely opinionated. Hell, if it was fact and not opinion, then you wouldn't have people telling you not to necropost to begin with. If you can't take the context of a thread you make from its title, then that's your own fault.