Commenting Upon Ancient Threads
JohnSmith69
layin low but staying high
Often somebody will post a comment on a thread that is anywhere from 6 months to many years old. I don't understand how people so often end up reading and commenting upon threads that have been completely dead for so long. Do people really remember these old posts and go back to search for them to add a comment months or years after the fact? It seems like that would be very time consuming. Or are people actually methodically going through and reading page after page of months or years of discussions? That would be even more time consuming. Or is it that people are searching key words that they are interested in and then commenting upon threads that concern those topics months or years after the fact? I guess that's possible but it seems like that wouldn't happen very often.
I understand that somebody like Dougster will comment upon some System thread for decades as a result of his obsession with Rick Dugan. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about legitimate comments made by a non-troll on ancient threads. How to people end up in these old threads to make these comments?
I understand that somebody like Dougster will comment upon some System thread for decades as a result of his obsession with Rick Dugan. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about legitimate comments made by a non-troll on ancient threads. How to people end up in these old threads to make these comments?
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One way of discovering old threads is by looking up certain members that I know I haven't seen posted anything in a while. I look up their list of comments, see an interesting subject, but then realize it's so old that no else is likely to comment further.
Another method of finding old threads is by selecting the "Last Comment" option in the "Sort Discussions" button. That will sometimes start a new series of comments on an old thread.