Why I think quality is better than quantity in terms of design and tactics

[Brokengauge]

I wasn't sure how everybody felt about thread based necrophilia here, but more than once I've seen ppl get jumped on for bringing up a topic that's been covered before. The complaint (at least in the one case I remember well) was that a necro was more desirable than a new thread on an old topic.

However, for just in case I always keep one of these:



Don't ask me where I got it.

 

[GRHayes]

I wasn't sure how everybody felt about thread based necrophilia here, but more than once I've seen ppl get jumped on for bringing up a topic that's been covered before. The complaint (at least in the one case I remember well) was that a necro was more desirable than a new thread on an old topic.

However, for just in case I always keep one of these:

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Don't ask me where I got it.

Guess it depends on how you want to look at it.
If your database purges posts after some time then reviving old posts is bad. If the database doesn't purge them bringing up an old post then save space and reduces the amount of threads needing to be searched.