At what point do y’all decide not to comment on a thread? Is 1 week+ too ’old’?
Screw it, I’ll necrothread like a forummancer.
Hell yeah, cyber archeology. Coming into old comments threads like Lawrence Fishburne, “this place is a tomb.”
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Good job team
I don’t even really think about it, I just comment if I have something to say. At worst, nobody reads it and I was shouting into the void for a minute.
But the Lemmy userbase isn’t massive yet, so those week+ old posts still see more engagement than you’d think.
Even on reddit new comments were sometimes useful. If I had a problem with some software it was useful to see how others solved it as time progressed.
Given how little activities there are on most lemmy posts, I usually comment everytime I find a post worth commenting.
I usually decide whether to comment or not based on comment count instead of time. I’ll happily comment on weeks or months old post if it only had one or two comments, but skip over hours old post if it already has plenty of comments.
I do this too. Especially weeks/months/years old post that ask IT-related question that I found in the first place from search engine because I was trying to find the answer. I feel the obligation to leave a reply after I found the solution.
Be the person who finally posts a solution to a seven year old program, which then helps out one person needing that solution next year!
a relevant response is timeless
Never. If it’s not locked and I have something to say imma say it.
I posted on a two year old thread (not on the fediverse) this week. I found the thread by searching and I’m sure other people will too if they have the same problem. So why not?
I guess we’ll see if I comment next week
As a long time former lurker I’m trying to go based on active conversation, others saying what I had to say, and if it’s something I’m interested in devoting time to. I’d say that is my criteria and not really how old the post is. The content.
I prefer old school forums with thread bumping, it saves a whole lot of repeats, it might not scale as well or work for everything, but where it works it’s much better than the Reddit formula (which was also used on some forms of old school forums, I know).
You my first comment on tha interwebs, shout out
I like your username, very clever. Glad to have you here with us. I’d say just comment anywhere and everywhere, activity is the name of the game at this early stage
I don’t see a problem with posting to very old ones, even years old. There will always be someone after me who will approciate more context or information.
I’ll necro a years-old thread without blinking. Never bothers me when somebody does it to a comment of mine, though I usually no longer have any idea what I was talking about.
I think it really depends on the context of the post for me. For example, I wouldn’t bother to comment on a news article from 2 years ago, but a tech support request in a retro gaming forum might have some new relevant information
I feel like this is something that arises organically in each community; on bigger r*ddit subs anything older than a few hours usually didn’t get read or responded to, but on Mastodon I’ve seen plenty of convos come back to life after weeks. If you have something meaningful to add, go for it. If nobody sees it, oh well
If you have something to contribute, it is never too late. This isn’t like forums where you “necro” a post.
Oh I’ll find a way…
If there aren’t many comments (and I have something useful for the OP) or if i have a question, then even a month is okay IMO.
But if it’s a post getting a ton of comments on a super popular sub or something that hit the front page or r/all… I give up even after 24 hours because my comment will never be seen.
I do not impose artificial limits on myself.
I would go with 6 months because after that it gets locked anyway. Well at least it did on Dig 5.0
