user987654321 bumping zombie threads

[Styturnip]

Bloody sick of it.

Come on HQ. Why not lock them, after a certain period, as suggested countless times before.

It's so annoying! Grrrr

I've quite enjoyed the revival of the grey hair is horrid one, it has given me an opportunity to post the unpopular views I never got round to posting before. One I started a couple of years ago "Toni and Guy are not very good hairdressers" ( to paraphrase) keeps getting revitalised by yet more people who see this as an eternal truth. It is a good thing, to have another chance to post, or be amused by what you posted before!

I thought they did have a message saying they were old or hadn't been posted on since X date?

I very nearly replied to an old thread from 2013 regards range cookers - i even excitedly went downstairs and took a pic on my phone to post to the thread, the thread had been bumped and was in active threads - luckily out of the corner of my eye I saw a message saying the thread hadn't been posted to since 2013 - it thankfully (how embarrassing would that have been?) stopped me from posting on it..

Well, if newbies are the type to be upset by the ZOMBIE alert message I suggest their constitutions are too delicate for MN.

It's bloody annoying to read through a thread only to suddenly realise it's years old.

Back to checking the dates of every thread again before reading.

Yes it is annoying. I liked the warning - I could sigh heavily and move on.

Between the trolls and the zombie threads it's getting F* irritating.

Maybe it's some kind of cyber attack

or maybe it's just a full moon

I agree with everyone that it's totally annoying, but as MNHQ don't seem in a hurry to sort it, it's not that difficult to just look at the date of the first post.

Upsetting newbies? Well this is upsetting a lot of long standing posters.

Things like this will forever remind me of Hackergate..

Why are there still so many user numbernumbernumber etc etc usernames?

It's impossible to keep track of who is who, on one thread let alone across threads. It tars the real ones with the troll brush

Why would the zombie thread message upset newbies? It's not directed at just them, but at anyone who tries to post on a zombie thread.

I agree with pigsDOfly: if newbies are the type to be upset by the ZOMBIE alert message I suggest their constitutions are too delicate for MN.

I think I was nicer years ago

I was definitely not nicer back then but having my arse handed back on a plate a few times made me a better person

We were all probably nicer when we weren't awash with trolls.

Nah Sparkling. I've never been nice. I do think I've turned a bit more bitch in recent years though.

Ah ok Wolfie.

Sparkling

Yes. I think that's part of it. I am just suspicious of everyone

There's also Menopause though...

I just spend most of my time on MN either like this or like this or both together. But mainly

Sparkling you forgot the head tilt!

Oh bugger.

Just posted on the grey hair thread. I HATE Zombie threads. Why can the colour of text net be changed or something? Something that is obvious throughout the thread.

Feel like a right numpty now.

We need a head tilit emoji-I do sometimes look like this

Looks like a beautiful Burmese Sparkling. I look more wrinkled WTF when I head tilt. Nowhere near so glamorous!

More like this wolfie?

A lot of forums prefer searching and bumping an old thread so i don't think it's that ridiculous to think that people would do it.

I do think it's ridiculous that MNHQ won't leave the zombie thing on the posting box - or better yet, have it at the beginning so you don't read close to 1000 posts before realising only the last three are less than four years old

No Tooold. Still too pretty. Think more like a bulldog amount of wrinkles. Tilt head, wrinkle faced WTF with a side order of resting bitch face.
My I'm a catch!

Meh. I don't get the whole angst over so called zombie threads. So what if they are old posts?