Revisiting Old Discussion Threads

The issue we have is that you were just restating information that was already in the thread. A good example of what this feels is if we left this very thread alone for six months, and a random guy came in and said "Doomsday31415, you shouldn't necropost." It would be illogical to do that because it was already mentioned by the rest of the participants of the thread and the discussion would no longer be relevant to current events.

And before you tell me that the example is stupid, yes, I know it's stupid. I oversimplified and exaggerated to make a point. You still did something similar.

I disagree with your comparison. It's completely a strawman. In both cases, I brought something to the table that wasn't there before.

Please look at what was said in the threads again and reassess your opinion.

I did. Multiple times. I don't know what else to tell you.

I don't usually like to do this, but I would like to point out that I am the moderator that patrols the discussion pages. That's actually the only reason why I even brought this up in the first place.

If you really believe you bought something extra to the discussion, I'm just going to have to say that you need to do better. It wasn't enough to warrant a necropost.

The only reason I paid you heed was BECAUSE you're a moderator. It was about the first thing I checked!

It's clear we're not going to agree on this, though, so let's leave it at that.

Unfortunately, I cannot leave this alone unless it's clear that you know what you did wrong. Therefore, I'm going to try to continue to explain. In the context of the original discussion, all parties involved already knew the general rule. In fact, Superveemon mentions it in the original post and Yinato only replied to point out that there was an exception. As such, when you pointed out the general rule again a few months later, it seemed entirely unnecessary. Does that make sense?

EDIT: Also, at this point, I suppose this isn't really a problem about bad necroposting, but rather a problem on reading the intentions of a discussion. After this discussion, you seem reasonable enough to already know that making inane posts on old threads is a bad idea. After all, our point of contention is whether or not the post in question has any substance or not.