Sometimes a very old thread pops up in New Posts. This might be becasue of a neophyte who found the thread in a web search, or a spammer but suddenly—there it is.
Sometimes people don’t notice it’s a thread started by Marconi or Tesla when they were looking for help back in the early days of AAC and so they’ll add their own wisdom, often provoking a flurry of “this is old” comments.
The question i had is, “is it ever actually a good thing to post in a thread that was possibly found in the tomb of Tutankhame?”
I answered my own question with “yes, there is at least one case where I think it is”
I can tell you are all anticipating juat what case that is, so I won’t keep you in suspense any longer: correcting misinformation.
Since it is often the case the reason the thread rises from the dead is that it turned up in a web search, modern responses to misinformation in the thread are a service to the community. After all, how many people find the misinformation the same way and don’t ever post to bring the thread to our attention. For future searchers, it seems to me, clarifying an error in the thread that was originally unchallenged in it is a Good Thing™ .
There may be other cases, but this is the one that came to mind.
Sometimes people don’t notice it’s a thread started by Marconi or Tesla when they were looking for help back in the early days of AAC and so they’ll add their own wisdom, often provoking a flurry of “this is old” comments.
The question i had is, “is it ever actually a good thing to post in a thread that was possibly found in the tomb of Tutankhame?”
I answered my own question with “yes, there is at least one case where I think it is”
I can tell you are all anticipating juat what case that is, so I won’t keep you in suspense any longer: correcting misinformation.
Since it is often the case the reason the thread rises from the dead is that it turned up in a web search, modern responses to misinformation in the thread are a service to the community. After all, how many people find the misinformation the same way and don’t ever post to bring the thread to our attention. For future searchers, it seems to me, clarifying an error in the thread that was originally unchallenged in it is a Good Thing™ .
There may be other cases, but this is the one that came to mind.
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