C'mon, SkipMagic, laugh a little

[Skywatcher]

@Lemur866

I might suggest that if board policy is to discourage posting to zombie threads, that any such zombie thread should be locked BEFORE it is touted in Threadspotting. That way we can ooh and ahh over the museum piece without any risk that it will be defaced by unthinking cads.

Then you’d get questions regarding why a locked thread made Threadspotting.

[Frank]

@Left Hand of Dorkness

Hmm…I just realized that the OP’s link goes to a specific post, not to the whole thread. There you guys go. Sorry, Diogenes and Sentientmeat!

OH! Now I get it.

wanders off wondering if it was worth the mental effort to get it

[What_Exit]

@Frank

OH! Now I get it.

wanders off wondering if it was worth the mental effort to get it

oof that was a reach, wasn’t it. But being the dope I am I think I’ll act on it.

Jim

[Clothahump]

@SkipMagic

Me, too, actually. I didn’t realize the thread had been spotted and stuff. Sorry about that, Clothahump.

We do close the majority of zombie threads for the usual reasons (e.g., the original posters are no longer here and cannot defend their posts; or the original posters might not hold those old views anymore, etc…), but we also allow some to be resurrected on a case-by-case basis (e.g., Coldfire’s May 5, 1945 - we shall remember.) For the thread in question today, however, I’d normally keep it closed because its original post was an apology to another poster and not something we really want to keep bringing up again and again. But, because it has been threadspotted, and because it had been hijacked in a humorous way, I’ll re-open it.

Thanks, Skip.

I didn’t mean to sound like I was genuinely pitting you. The SDMB does say that the Pit is the place for mod comments and I was trying to make a joke out of the whole thing.

[Clothahump]

@Maus Magill

By the way, screw all you all for making me defend Clothahump.

It coulda been worse, I coulda been defending Updike.

Ah, it’s good for ya to walk in the light every once in a while.

[Zabali_Clawbane]

Can’t you label them as “old threads, please don’t ressurect” when they are put in threadspotting? That would help with the confusion. If it wasn’t labeled as I propose it would be ok to post in, if it was, then people who checked it out from threadspotting would at least have an extra clue.

[TubaDiva]

My bad, my bad.

I had misfiled the original nominating email . . . found it in the wee small hours of the morning when I was putting the front page together . . . read a few posts, giggled, and ran it in Threadspotting.

I apologize for putting all this in play.

I think I will make it a point not to run any old threads for Threadspotting any more.

TubaDiva

[Zebra]

Perhaps we need a new forum of only locked threads. Just the best of the best.

[Zabali_Clawbane]

Or you could make a catagory titled “oldies, but goodies” or some such?

[Ponder_Stibbons]

@TubaDiva

My bad, my bad.
…
I think I will make it a point not to run any old threads for Threadspotting any more.

TubaDiva

No, no, don’t worry about it at all. In fact, the fact that the following quote is from July 22 of last year just makes it all the funnier.

@smiling bandit

Thank you, thank you all. My humiliation is now complete.

Ha! That’s what you thought! It just gets more and more complete every day. (Poor guy).