2w ago

They've been wondering all this time

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this kind of thing has saved my life so many times, please keep doing it! also I get a little excited when someone replies to an old post.
- !remindme 12years

I used to hate when this happened to me. Someone reviving a post from ages ago to answer a question that I already found months/years ago.
But hey, it could help someone else in the future if I didn't go back and post the answer to my own question (spoiler alert: I didn't) so now I just do what OP does and thank them for their time, move on with my day. Chuckle at the stupidity of my youth.
Some people get angry about things like that. Just be chill, they probably didn't notice how long ago it was posted.
- Yes, many forum troglodites have this heinous reaction. Many of them are incompetent forum moderators. They are upset because they have notification of all changes happenning on the forum but this isn't novel and interesting to them personnally so they attack it with words like "necroposting". Those mostly recycled bbs people with almost no life left in them or OCD people who must compulsively complete and categorize everything and are upset when something is added to something they believed completed. Eventually we will rid our information ecosystem of these, at best, overzealous users or at least marginalize them so they stop causing damage, cutting connections, creating deadends and stopping progress generally. It's like I always say, progress occurs one funeral at a time.
- I still occasionally get replies on reddit from threads that are over a decade old. I used to use reddit a lot, but that has dropped to almost nothing after switching to Lemmy.
  
  I've gotten that here, which is incredibly surprising because search on Lemmy kinda sucks. I haven't been here a decade, but I did get some replies from a year old comment I made.
  
  I think it was just a few years ago they changed it to make that even possible
  
  I checked Reddit last month for the first time since June of 2023 and had 4 notifications. 3 of them were about buying into Reddit's fucking shitass IPO. I guess people just aren't interested in my half-life hot takes :(

9 years later: You're welcome!

There's (kinda) an xkcd for that https://xkcd.com/979

I sometimes do the same.

According to spotify this song was released 2022.
Furthermore: I dunno what this "everybody wiki is" but he seems to be a special kind of musician https://en.everybodywiki.com/Jincheng_Zhang

LoCk StAlE ToPiCs bEcAuSe ThEy'Re OlD
- Ban users for “necroposting”.
  
  I never understood that tbh
  
  Necroposting should be eradicated from the vocabulary. I search for people who use that word and bully them mercilessly. The idea that you can't continue a conversation from 1992 by people who are all dead is ludicrous. The gatekeepers of our information ecosystem are incompetent troglodytes by and large unfit to manage their own underwear, let alone the great archive of the public square.

Almost penpals by now

the song in question
- Pretty cool but not really my jam
  
  “Songs To Do Nitrous To”
  (Also RO might be my favorite game experience I’ve ever had in my life. It got me through school alive and I still listen to the excellent soundtrack when I’m working sometimes.)

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