For some bizarre reason, people on forums get really angry when you post in an old thread and chastise you for "necroposting". This forum goes so far as to post a warning like so:
Encouraging people to make whole new threads about topics that have already been discussed and duplicate the same conversation and background information scattered around in multiple places makes absolutely no sense to me.
Why does this warning and checkbox exist? Why do you discourage people from consolidating information in one place?
wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself
I seriously have never understood why this is a bad thing. If you have something to contribute about differential probes, then you should search the forum and see if it's already been discussed. If there's been a discussion on the forum about differential probes, but your post brings something new, you should post in the existing thread about differential probes.Old Thread Warning
This Thread is more than 508 days old. It is very likely that it does not need any further discussion and thus bumping it serves no purpose.
If you still feel it is necessary to make a new reply, you can still do so though.
[] I am aware that this Thread is rather old but I still want to make a reply.
Encouraging people to make whole new threads about topics that have already been discussed and duplicate the same conversation and background information scattered around in multiple places makes absolutely no sense to me.
Why does this warning and checkbox exist? Why do you discourage people from consolidating information in one place?
wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself