To wonder why people post on really old threads?

[KimberleyClark]

Seen at least 3 today. One was from 2013. How do you actually find threads that are that old?

If you start a new thread then MN shows you similar threads and people will ask what happened in the OP’s situation. Then other people see it in trending but don’t realise the date.

I reckon the stupid algorithm that suggests other threads you might be interested in needs its collar felt.

They also come up on Google.

I’ve done it as I haven’t noticed the date.

Plus posters must resolve to never ever check the date of the OP and refuse to feel a twat when it is pointed out.

The 2013 one was relating to a then four year old misbehaving and the poster reply “she’s only 4!” She will be a stroppy teen by now.

Because of the stupid 'similar threads' option.

I do this when they appear in active or last hour, plus I rarely check the date, as I assume they are current, if they appear in these two places.
Wrongly sometimes, as it turns out. Oh well…

They click on similar threads and don't read the date.

That's so sweet. I hope the original poster spots it and comes back to update on her little hellraiser.

I may post on an old thread because someone else has added a reply before as I forget to read the date of the op

But I don't believe I have been the person to bring it back to life myself

If you search a topic such as ‘9 year old still wets the bed’ on Google, it will bring up an old thread on Mumsnet, people may comment not knowing it’s old.

And when you are reading a current thread such as ‘my house won’t sell because of my purple wallpaper’ it suggests posts beneath that thread such as ‘is wallpaper dated?’ ‘my SIL said wallpaper was hideous’ - they suck you in and you don’t realise they’re so old until you see the date.

Because people new to Mumsnet find the site by googling a specific thing, which takes them to a specific thread. It's a useful thread to them, so they post on it.

Not realising that they've committed the most heinous crime in the world according to the MN thread police.

What I wonder is why other people care...

Like on the baby name board when someone drags up a 10 year old thread to tell everyone their name.

For example

OP in 2011: Thinking of naming my baby Chloe
Poster in 2024: My name’s Chloe!

I always wonder if they were googling their own name.

What about the zombie warning you get on old thread that says something along the lines of this thread is old as shit and nobody has been near it in months, are you really sure you want to do this?

If someone can read that and still press post then I don't know what their motivation could be.

It's like walking into a closed bar six months after the world cup final and shouting to an empty room how the ref was an idiot.

Yeah you can do it but what's the point? Nobody's in there and if anyone hears you from outside they just think you're a prat.

Obviously that only applies to the actual Reanimator.
Once they've done the dastardly deed it just goes right into active where people don't check the date because active usually equals current.

Ah, fond memories of the time a poster came back and replied to her own post many years later without realising

Oh that one was hilarious!