Necro Day!!

[Xryuran]

Recently I've noticed a long dead thread get bumped back to the surface to much applause. With old and new readers both finding the story and enjoying it together.
I propose a day, maybe a couple times per year, that the no necro rule is relaxed so some of these old stories that have long died but are still wonderful can be found by new audiences.
Of course you would have to put some guidelines like a minimum post count or perhaps do if a Fandom at a time so the front page isn't over whelmed.
I believe that this would be a way to bring old and new users of the site together as well. Many of us that have been on this site for years remember all these stories but the newbies would be lost if we ever made reference to them.
Sure a recommendation thread works if you know what your looking for but many of my favorite finds were just browsing through the front pages. Shadowclonier even suggested that we could give it a catchy name. Maybe give it a little hype a few days before so people can start looking for threads to introduce again.

 

[Megaolix]

Recently I've noticed a long dead thread get bumped back to the surface to much applause. With old and new readers both finding the story and enjoying it together.
I propose a day, maybe a couple times per year, that the no necro rule is relaxed so some of these old stories that have long died but are still wonderful can be found by new audiences.

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I vote no.

 

[Silvercrystal]

I thought that was last week? Given how many necros we had.
also not a fan of the idea.

 

[daniel_gudman]

I'm against it, in that it's an extra layer that will confuse a rule that is observably not intuitive. So it will probably like, triple the amount of regular necromancy. Edge cases like people necroing threads a few days off the target timeframe, or conversely reporting posts for necroing but it's during the special window that's okay... sounds very annoying for everyone involved.

Frankly, a tightly-focused Recc Thread, "stuff on this board that is dead and/or complete", would probably accomplish 90% of what you want to do here without needing any particular rule changes. Maybe you could do a thread like that instead

 

[ThatCatMan]

The mods will come to our houses personally and break our keyboards with sledgehammers if we type anything other than RIP, F, or o7.

 

[Cubbyhb1]

As a person who uses Sufficient Velocity, and thus knows that the no necro rule is entirely pointless, I say you aren't going far enough!

 

[Arzte]

Removing the necro rule outright I feel would increase the number of low-effort posts made in an attempt to thread bump. The necro rule on here is already pretty generous, from what I've seen discussion on a thread tends to die out well before someone would perform a necromantic post anyways, I fail to see the use case here outside of bumping a thread with more recent posts.

 

[daniel_gudman]

As a person who uses Sufficient Velocity, and thus knows that the no necro rule is entirely pointless, I say you aren't going far enough!

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Yeah SV doesn't have too many people who go around replying to twelve-year-old threads with "bump"

That uuuh would be a concern with the crowd around here I think.

 

[impossiblearchitect]

Yeah SV doesn't have too many people who go around replying to twelve-year-old threads with "bump"

That uuuh would be a concern with the crowd around here I think.

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I mean, SV does have a rule against that explicitly, though. Necros aren't against the rules, but necros with zero-content posts are. You're allowed to revive old threads so long as you actually have something to contribute.