Well, I was gonna wait until AD 2029 to respond to this thread ...................

And thanks, everyone, for replying!  I hope we'll get some more responses.

Tanker - Builder

Well , Hi there :

   I am Guilty . I have revived old threads . Why ? Well , when you get asked a question face to face , you look for an answer , right ? Guess what ? this person didn't even know , or said he didn't , about this Forum site .

      I think some should be revived if for nothing else , to show the New members and readers that modelers have been asking these questions for years and YES , the answers change with technology and improvements with the building products and the Models .

      Although I started accidentally , now I will just shut up and read . Thank You  Tanker - Builder

Well , Hi there :

   I am Guilty . I have revived old threads . Why ? Well , when you get asked a question face to face , you look for an answer , right ? Guess what ? this person didn't even know , or said he didn't , about this Forum site .

      I think some should be revived if for nothing else , to show the New members and readers that modelers have been asking these questions for years and YES , the answers change with technology and improvements with the building products and the Models .

      Although I started accidentally , now I will just shut up and read . Thank You  Tanker - Builder

If there's a real question there, like if one saw a 10 year old build and wanted to know how to achieve a certain effect, then I see no real problem.

What we saw over the last couple of weeks though, was quite a number of old threads which were resurrected simply for the sake of doing so.

Examples include:

• A "welcome" post to a member who joined so long ago (12 years), his membership was no longer active and his user name was displayed as "anonymous".
• A reply to a 13 year old "thinner question" saying "use the recommended thinner for best results"

Well, when I start reading a thread and I've never heard of most of the posters I look up at the date.

Given that kits have a lifetime measured in decades, and new modellers (hopefully) enter the hobby all the time, I have no problem with thread resurection. It's not appropriate for buy/sell threads, but otherwise it harms nobody.

Personally at this stage of my game if something of the sort irks me enough to respond emotionally then I need to take a sabbatical. Second point, I've experienced the developers handi-work recently and be careful what you wish for.

I don't see a problem when an honest mistake is done and one answers it. Another thing is when an individual goes on a rampage of reviving 10-13 year old threads like we have recently seen here, many times giving just a couple of words just to bring it back.

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GMorrison

I have no problem with it if it's done in earnest.

If you are referring to the recent multiple zombie restarts across all subjects, in a few days span, by one member, it is a real problem because it swamps the recent post display. But it seemes to have passed.

 

Same here. Somtimes it can lead to a freash dicussion. It can often depend on what the original thread was about.

I have gained some useful info from such threads. And have also been able to answer the person asking a question, in the thread that they brought back from the abyss.

It is silly though, when a ten year old thread gets another answer to a question. This does not bother me really...I have real world problems. I can see how it happens...if you do a search for a related topic, a ten year old thread can very easily pop up at the top of the list.

I have no problem with it if it's done in earnest.

If you are referring to the recent multiple zombie restarts across all subjects, in a few days span, by one member, it is a real problem because it swamps the recent post display. But it seemes to have passed.