Thinking of getting a Flowerhorn!

[Matteus]

Ok but try not to dig up old threads unless it’s relevant.

Wow. So bossy ?

 

[HybridFinatic]

ok but why?

like I said, unless it's relevant, for obvious reasons.

 

[Krismo962]

irrelevant to what exactly?

 

[koltsixx]

Krismo962 Necroing a thread is generally frowned on in most forums. The reason is it buries more recent threads. Imagine if everyone necroed threads and you posted a thread and needed a answer or where sharing something you learned that might help the community and it never got an answer/response because it got buried under a bunch of old threads that people necroed. It might frustrate you and if you're a new user might make you not return to the forum. Especially if it's a common place thing. And if you where sharing something helpful the whole community would lose out because dead threads made your info less visible.

Now if a thread was brought back because there was new info. or a update that's different but even then it's usually better to create a new thread. You could summarize your last thread and include the new info. to make it more easily digestible for the readers. Making it a more effective means of passing info. Just saying what's up or referencing something humorous from a old thread is better done via PM or in the person you wish to address new thread but that could lead to derailing the thread, which again is counterproductive and derailing is against TOS.

I know it's not obvious, as necroing would seem to be innocuous to most people, myself included till I saw the effects for myself.

 

[HybridFinatic]

irrelevant to what exactly?

Relevant to the present and a particular topic. Not digging up a thread from 3 years ago for no particular reason but just to say that you found it hard to believe that op considered getting a flowerhorn for some reason like you did. It’s important to keep things relevant in an online forum. This section isn’t heavily moderated and you dug this thread up for no reason so I called it out. Plain and simple. Won’t respond further.

 

[Krismo962]

thanks for letting me know

 

[Matteus]

Krismo962 Necroing a thread is generally frowned on in most forums. The reason is it buries more recent threads. Imagine if everyone necroed threads and you posted a thread and needed a answer or where sharing something you learned that might help the community and it never got an answer/response because it got buried under a bunch of old threads that people necroed. It might frustrate you and if you're a new user might make you not return to the forum. Especially if it's a common place thing. And if you where sharing something helpful the whole community would lose out because dead threads made your info less visible.

Now if a thread was brought back because there was new info. or a update that's different but even then it's usually better to create a new thread. You could summarize your last thread and include the new info. to make it more easily digestible for the readers. Making it a more effective means of passing info. Just saying what's up or referencing something humorous from a old thread is better done via PM or in the person you wish to address new thread but that could lead to derailing the thread, which again is counterproductive and derailing is against TOS.

I know it's not obvious, as necroing would seem to be innocuous to most people, myself included till I saw the effects for myself.

Now that is an answer. I understand now. Thank you for the feedback. This makes sense.

 

[krichardson]

I find it hard to believe that krichardson once considered getting a flowerhorn

Hah! I was heavily into cichlids many years ago.I kept Oscars and other New World fish as well as African cichlids.
I never got around to buying that little guy btw.