Why is Necro'ing bad?

[Former-GM-Circe]

Simply because most necros aren't for useful posts, as you claim.
Posts like "lol" or "haha" don't really need to be posted if it makes you necro. Just enjoy the thread yourself and move on. If you want a friend to see, link them externally.


Archiving everything older than a month makes finding things for those who just need to read it exceptionally difficult.
Imagine trying to find help threads to read because you're experiencing a problem when you have to search through everything in the archives.

On that note, if you need help or have a problem, it is honestly better to make a new thread and mention what you've tried thus far, or even just link to the old threads in a new thread (if you've actually done anything in any of those threads), simply due to the fact that RO constantly updates and changes, and more importantly, the change from Sakray to Ragray makes said threads outdated, and often useless.
This makes it easier for people to help, find your post, know exactly what's up, rather than necro a thread with "it not work for me to".

Another example of this irrelevance of older topics shows in the recent necro of the loading screens thread. It's in the Archives, and it's outdated by several years (hence its place in said Archives).
Even that sort of thing can simply be looked at. It doesn't need posts everywhere, even if it were up to date and relevant.


And that's the main point. Most necros are not constructive in the slightest.