When I scroll through the Active Topics, I sometimes witness a thread that has supposedly blown up overnight over a real basic title. I click it, aaaaaaand, whatdyaknow, the first post of the thread was made when I was a toddler, with the latest post supposedly trying to catch up on the action. This is really, really marginally annoying at worst. Especially when repliers (usually very new members) address the OP directly, and good chance is, they're long gone, multiple years ago. Part confusing, and tragic.
I don't find it annoying in the slightest. First off, I don't sweat the petty stuff (and don't pet the sweaty stuff).
Secondly, I understand the Internet is basically eternal. Whatever you put online, stays online somewhere.
Thirdly, there are roughly 7.5 BILLION people on the planet. What might be "old news" to you is the first time someone else has ever seen it.
How old were you when you first saw Star Wars? I saw it when it first came out in 1977. Every kid who ever saw it since then was seeing something that was"old news" to me. To them, it was new and exciting.
So remember the world is bigger than you are and don't let yourself get annoyed by small, petty things that don't hurt you.
I've been on forums where people are annoyed by the resurrection of old zombie threads and I've been on forums where people get annoyed at seeing the same questions asked over and over in new threads. We can't have it both ways. If people can't ask questions and discuss things, you cease having a forum. If everything is a bunch of sticky threads that everyone is just supposed to read, that's not a forum...that's an online library.
Do you want a reference library without personal interaction? Or do you want a place to discuss things which carries the risk that newbies might ask a question that you're tired of or that someone might find and older topic that they want to discuss? In the end, is it really that bad? Doesn't it really ruin your whole experience?
One forum I'm on, almost DAILY sees new, young bassists asking "what's the best bass for metal?" That question has LITERALLY been asked thousands of times on that forum. The choices are: answer the question to the best of your ability or don't. You don't even have to read that thread either. The options are the same everywhere. There's no need to let yourself get annoyed by it. The older you get, the less petty things will annoy you.
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