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Oh, suggestion for the system administrator to avoid these awful thread revivals?
Turn off the "alert user when someone posts in the thread you posted in" for whatever time period you have determined is an "out of steam thread." Or at least add the line : "Post at your peril, cause this thread is xxx months old, and has been determined to not matter anymore. You will be ridiculed and berated for responding."
'Cause, as I look back, that's how I got involved. Got the email from your system telling me someone responded to a thread I was posting in. Not sure how Zoe revived it. But that's how I was alerted.
Oh, wait....can't you lock old threads? Yes, I'm sure that's a function of the message board software. Then you could avoid all this nonsense as well. Just lock 'em all up after a certain time. Then you have that "control fix," as well.
I figured it was safe to respond to a thread I had posted in (my bad for thinking that.)
I already knew it was wrong to start a new thread that didn't fit the ever changing requirements. (See above confirmation)
But I will give you a bit of marketing philosophy we use, since you've been so kind.....
ANY appearance, ANY...where the outcome is to expose our product to one new potential user, marketer, or media source is worth it's time in gold. Compensation aside, I think I would consider PAYING for an appearance that meets my criteria.
That might have something to do with longevity in ANY business.
Rolling with the changes from Super 8, to Video, to BBS, to internet does give one a perspective on the industry that only a lengthy exposure like that can do. If you're lucky, maybe you'll be able to see that thing that comes after whatever is happening when I drop dead, being the next generation and all.
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