Thoughts on posting dealing with topic length

[NeutralDrow]

Well, it depends on the thread. It's not necromancy (IMO) if someone makes a repeat thread of a week-old topic that got three replies and died quickly. However, a repeat thread of "Who's your favorite character in game x?" is unnecessary, to say the least.

True, I guess...though I have to wonder if a thread whose topic only got three replies is actually worth repeating.

Maybe I'm just pissed off having to repeat myself a dozen times since joining these forums on things like "WRPGs vs. JRPGs." It gets annoying, after a while, since those threads really never change. There's always the same amount of reasoned discourse (little) and incredible bullshit (lots) in every single one...

Well, that's assuming they did it on accident, in my situation.

True.

WRPG vs. JRPG is a reasonable discussion. There are valid points and good debators but sssssooooo many more trolls that they flood and suffocate the conversation to the point that the discussion becomes a dick-measuring contest. Although, come to think of it, it be rather hard to measure my junk underwater... unless I had goggles... and here I go, back to humming the FMA theme song, gosh darn it...

It is a reasonable discussion. The problem is, it's the same reasonable discussion every single time (i.e. they have different strengths, come from different platform and cultural backgrounds, and very few aspects of either are universal)...and the same small amount of it, after sifting through all the same idiocy to see it. No offense intended, but I'm going to deliberately ignore your metaphor.

 

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[Eric the Orange]

I was going to make a thread about this. I think that repeat threads are fine because they allow people to post their opinions where they'll actually be read by someone. Nobody wants to post on a thread that already has hundreds of responses. Thank you for creating this thread.

This thread isn't meant to be about repeat threads, but rather asking if you post on long threads, and if not why not. But some repeat threads are fine but a lot I see (like what age are you or what gender are you) could be simply answered with the search bar.

Also I feel that when a thread has gotten to 5 or more pages that nobody is really reading all those pages so posting in it is a waste of time. And a lot of longer threads have dissolved into flame wars which I avoid even if I do have something relevant to say on the topic.