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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7404884, member: 110350"]I also never heard the "rule" about not reviving threads more than a year old, unless a thread is intended to be ongoing. It doesn't happen often anyway, and when it does I don't think it's a product of rudeness -- mostly it's either (1) the same person who started the thread coming back to update it with new information, whether about a coin or the subject in general, or (2) a new member not realizing that it's an old thread, who posts on it because they found the thread in a search and they're interested in the topic. So I don't think it's worth making up a rule about it, or suggesting that people who break that rule are necessarily being rude.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do, on the other hand, think that it could legitimately be considered rude to post a half-dozen requests for help (with identification or otherwise) in a 24-hour period, all as separate threads rather than combining them into one thread. Not because it's inherently rude to do so, but because there are only 20 threads on the front page at any given time, and once a thread is knocked to the second page it might as well not exist for all the attention it gets. And posting so many threads in a single day has the effect of "disappearing" a lot of other people's threads, some of which (as I know from personal experience!) required a lot of research and took a long time to write. Still, though, when this kind of thing happens it's also usually from a new poster who doesn't understand the effect of what they're doing, and stops once that's explained to them. It's only rude if they ignore the explanation. </p><p><br /></p><p>TLDR: What some people consider rudeness is more often the product of ignorance from new posters, and can usually be corrected with a polite explanation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7404884, member: 110350"]I also never heard the "rule" about not reviving threads more than a year old, unless a thread is intended to be ongoing. It doesn't happen often anyway, and when it does I don't think it's a product of rudeness -- mostly it's either (1) the same person who started the thread coming back to update it with new information, whether about a coin or the subject in general, or (2) a new member not realizing that it's an old thread, who posts on it because they found the thread in a search and they're interested in the topic. So I don't think it's worth making up a rule about it, or suggesting that people who break that rule are necessarily being rude. I do, on the other hand, think that it could legitimately be considered rude to post a half-dozen requests for help (with identification or otherwise) in a 24-hour period, all as separate threads rather than combining them into one thread. Not because it's inherently rude to do so, but because there are only 20 threads on the front page at any given time, and once a thread is knocked to the second page it might as well not exist for all the attention it gets. And posting so many threads in a single day has the effect of "disappearing" a lot of other people's threads, some of which (as I know from personal experience!) required a lot of research and took a long time to write. Still, though, when this kind of thing happens it's also usually from a new poster who doesn't understand the effect of what they're doing, and stops once that's explained to them. It's only rude if they ignore the explanation. TLDR: What some people consider rudeness is more often the product of ignorance from new posters, and can usually be corrected with a polite explanation.[/QUOTE]
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