I’m not downvoting you for adding the comment to an old thread, I’m downvoting you for the “hooray thread necromancy” sentence which completely distracted from anything actually meaningful you had to say in your comment and turned the whole subthread into a discussion of whether it’s okay to add comments to old thread.
Yes, it’s okay to add comments to old threads. If your comment has utility enough to be part of the thread, then it’ll have utility enough for people rereading the old thread after a few years too. Opposition to such is the product of the mechanics of other forums where revived old threads get boosted up thus drowning the newer ones—this isn’t the case here, so it doesn’t apply.
But it’s NOT OKAY to waste space patting yourself on the back about how you added a comment to an old thread. That causes distraction and disutility, as this subthread clearly proves.
The first time I posted on an old thread, the reply (from CronoDAS) was “Hooray thread necromancy” in sarcasm tags. So I was just pre-emptively recognizing that some people seem to think posting on old threads is a action not to be taken. Not patting myself on the back.
I’m not downvoting you for adding the comment to an old thread, I’m downvoting you for the “hooray thread necromancy” sentence which completely distracted from anything actually meaningful you had to say in your comment and turned the whole subthread into a discussion of whether it’s okay to add comments to old thread.
Yes, it’s okay to add comments to old threads. If your comment has utility enough to be part of the thread, then it’ll have utility enough for people rereading the old thread after a few years too. Opposition to such is the product of the mechanics of other forums where revived old threads get boosted up thus drowning the newer ones—this isn’t the case here, so it doesn’t apply.
But it’s NOT OKAY to waste space patting yourself on the back about how you added a comment to an old thread. That causes distraction and disutility, as this subthread clearly proves.
The first time I posted on an old thread, the reply (from CronoDAS) was “Hooray thread necromancy” in sarcasm tags. So I was just pre-emptively recognizing that some people seem to think posting on old threads is a action not to be taken. Not patting myself on the back.