Bumping ancient threads

[Doctor Europeo]

Instead of replying to an ancient thread, may we kindly suggest to instead create a new thread adding your thoughts and linking to the old one. Thank you.

@jhonny9546

 

[Bible_Belt]

Could be a bot.

 

[NealIRC]

Could be a bot.

Well, that wouldn't matter, they deserve a warning in case they aren't a bot.

 

[Michael Chief]

When I was a mod on a now-defunct PUA forum, this became such a common issue that we specifically made a rule against it. To this day I still have no idea the process that these people go through to revive old threads, and I am genuinely curious as to how they're even finding such old threads. Do they find them through Google, where older webpages/threads might have more SEO authority to rank higher? Do they just prefer posting in threads that have more pages and replies and specifically seek them in forum searches? Just how?

 

[Bible_Belt]

When I was a mod on a now-defunct PUA forum, this became such a common issue that we specifically made a rule against it. To this day I still have no idea the process that these people go through to revive old threads, and I am genuinely curious as to how they're even finding such old threads. Do they find them through Google, where older webpages/threads might have more SEO authority to rank higher? Do they just prefer posting in threads that have more pages and replies and specifically seek them in forum searches? Just how?

Internet marketing companies create these bots. They are designed to drive traffic to the client's site. They pretend to be human, make generic comments, and eventually post spam links. One of the big red flags is the bumping of old threads.

 

[NealIRC]

Internet marketing companies create these bots. They are designed to drive traffic to the client's site. They pretend to be human, make generic comments, and eventually post spam links. One of the big red flags is the bumping of old threads.

Ironically, a forum like City-Data encourages people to revive threads, which may drive up traffic or and give them more money, I guess.

 

[BillyPilgrim]

When I was a mod on a now-defunct PUA forum, this became such a common issue that we specifically made a rule against it. To this day I still have no idea the process that these people go through to revive old threads, and I am genuinely curious as to how they're even finding such old threads. Do they find them through Google, where older webpages/threads might have more SEO authority to rank higher? Do they just prefer posting in threads that have more pages and replies and specifically seek them in forum searches? Just how?

I find them on google but I'm pretty specific on what I search (bc I want to find as similar of a situation as possible to see how they are handled)

But yeah, specific to this content, things have changed so much with dating it's almost irrelevant. It's almost like bumping a 15 year old thread on a tech forum, it's obsolete.

 

[jhonny9546]

I'm not a bot, I'm reading old posts

 

[Michael Chief]

I'm not a bot, I'm reading old posts

How are you finding those old posts?

Genuinely very curious as a former forum mod.

Also my third and final time asking (not a threat lol).

 

[NealIRC]

How are you finding those old posts?

Genuinely very curious as a former forum mod.

Also my third and final time asking (not a threat lol).

Probably Google search. It's happened to me but for other forums. Especially if you keyword search a certain phrase.

 

[BillyPilgrim]

This will probably be an ongoing issue, I think we will need yearly reminders of this.

 

[member162951]

I often read threads from years ago, but don't resurrect them. I find them by doing a search in the search bar for a particular topic and all threads discussing that topic will pop up.

I have found threads going back as far as 2010, perhaps even further back!

The forum was so much different back then. 2016-2018 were the best years imo with posters like da dynamically and stormrider (same poster), @guru1000 and others.

@BeExcellent was a relatively new member back then and there were some great (and heated!!) discussions between her and stormrider and others, there was a female poster, saez, who was a kick too!

It's changed a lot since then!

Anyway, perhaps that's how these threads get resurrected, I can't speak for those who do it.

Yeah, starting a new thread would be best.

 

[Doctor Europeo]

This will probably be an ongoing issue, I think we will need yearly reminders of this.

Ironically, we could bump this thread every now and then.

 

[NealIRC]

Ironically, we could bump this thread every now and then.

In some sense you can use a thread to constantly tag people that are bumping threads.

 

[jhonny9546]

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