# DIE, thread, DIE!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 6, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269 "2000-09-06T19:57:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/1 "2000-09-06T19:57:33Z")
Why won’t [THIS](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23154&pagenumber=1) Jax Ashby-fucking, Mark Serlin-felching thread DIE? It is FUCKING **ANCIENT** now!!! > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Osip 04-30-00, 7:59PM_ Please, let it DIE people! I am sick of this thread! Isn’t anyone else? Just a note: It’s not the people I have a problem with, it’s the fucking thread! The only problem I have with the people is that they keep reviving it. FIVE months??? DAMN. This fucker should’ve went to Postville Cemetery about 4 months ago. I have made a serious effort to reduce my exorbant amount of posting, and I think I have done a good job. I realize I need to particate in other people’s threads more, and this will come. However, I do not, and will not, go about resurrecting threads that should be corpses by now. I usually have a no-pit-posting policy, but this really has me pissed and I had to say something. I know I am not the only one here who frowns on resurrecting out-of-date threads. Again to clarify, I am not flaming any persons, only their act of raising dead threads. MSK has spoken. Thankyou. ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/2 "2000-09-06T21:26:28Z")
I have noticed that you haven’t been around, and missed you. I thoght we might have scared you off. As for that thread, I get to the pont that if there is 2+ pages, I don’t even look anymore. Takes WAY to long ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/3 "2000-09-06T21:42:05Z")
Better to dig up an old thread than to start another one on the same damn subject, MSK. ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/4 "2000-09-06T21:48:17Z")
This is a harmless thread that people are apparently still interested in–there’s a big difference between that and some troll ressurecting old controversies to start fights. I have to assume that bringing back old threads is not evil by itself–you will notice there is no policy of locking old threads in general, which would be easy enough to do. I don’t know who you think appointed you the Thread Police, **MSK** , but here’s a brain wave–if you don’t wanna read it, then don’t open the fucking thing. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/5 "2000-09-06T22:00:52Z")
MSK, you said pretty much the very same thing in the thread in question. That it was ancient and should die. I don’t know who you think you are that you feel the need to tell people when they should stop posting to a certain thread, but no one is under any obligation to listen to you. Obviously people are still interested in the topic or it wouldn’t continually get resurrected. > [@](#): > > \*\*MSK has spoken. \*\* Who cares? ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/6 "2000-09-06T22:07:51Z")
I never claimed to have any authority here at the SDMB, whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/7 "2000-09-06T22:24:55Z")
You sorta imply you have any say or power here with that whole “MSK has spoken” bit. Sorta like “Elvis has left the building”. BTW, isn’t it a worse crime to post “why don’t we let this die?” than to resurrect an old thread if you have something of actual use to say? ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/8 "2000-09-06T22:30:01Z")
Taken from the thread in question: > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by MSK_ > \*\*I just had to say this: > > Please let this thread DIE!!! It’s ancient now. Time to move on folks\*\* Time to move on folks? Not trying to claim authority, yet telling people that it’s “time to move on”. I guess that makes sense. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/9 "2000-09-06T22:38:50Z")
Huh? so someone resurected a thread I started. Well, good for them if they have something to add to it. Is the second time that tread has been brought back to life. Once by the Evil Osip and just this week. I do notice that when it does resurface it stays about 3 to 6 days where some of the new posters add their thoughts and then it sinks again into the murk. What can I say people love me. Well, maybe not but I am allowed my delusions. At least it is the the Fate ruins Osip’s Date thread. While that is one of my favorite posts, it is a bit embaressing and really stunts my chances to flirt shameleesly with a female poster. Osip ---
**Author:** ![MagicalSilverKey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@MagicalSilverKey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicalSilverKey)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/10 "2000-09-06T22:39:29Z")
Okay, so maybe I handled it incorrectly. Perhaps it would have been better to ASK if it was appropriate to continue that thread in light of it’s age. Regardless, I request that this pit thread be closed, please. I’m staying out of here from now on. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/11 "2000-09-06T22:50:34Z")
All I know is I take sick, perverted pleasure whenever some newbie resurrects [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=23098) every other week. It’s too powerful to be stopped!!! Mwahahahahahahaha-a-a-a-a!! ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/12 "2000-09-06T22:51:04Z")
Well, MSK . . . your first pit stop. At least you didn’t ask to be flamed. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/13 "2000-09-06T23:02:44Z")
Don’t apologize MSK - this is the Pit after all. Many people act and do a lot worse here, I don’t see anything out of line about your rant. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/14 "2000-09-06T23:32:24Z")
:rolleyes: MSK: what’s the point? I could see if it were a fight thread, like an argument that people kept adding fuel to the flame, or if it were a troll post, but it’s just a topic… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/15 "2000-09-06T23:59:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tubagirl \* > **I thought we might have scared you off.** **MSK**? No such luck, **tg**. But I agree about the long threads. I have the attention span of a gnat. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/16 "2000-09-07T00:19:54Z")
This thread has been coming and going for over a year now: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=12710&pagenumber=1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=12710&pagenumber=1) Who cares? People still have some stuff to say! Zette ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/17 "2000-09-07T01:26:51Z")
**MagicalSilverKey** said: > [@](#): > > Perhaps it would have been better to ASK if it was appropriate to continue that thread in light of it’s age. Perhaps it would have been better if you didn’t try to inflict your notions of what it is “appropriate” for other people to post to. I really don’t understand people who get their panties in a bunch over what thread titles they have to see on page one of a forum. I could see it if the thread or title was offensive somehow (yes, I know that’s vague), but for something like this it’s ridiculous. Don’t like it? Don’t read it. This isn’t hard to figure out. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/18 "2000-09-07T01:30:23Z")
When I saw the thread title, all I could think of was Sideshow Bob’s tattoo–\>The thread, The! ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/19 "2000-09-07T03:43:57Z")
Yepper, nothing more annoying than stale news. We’re not talking about the Code of Hammurabi or Canterbury Tales here, but sometimes _stuff_ keeps getting discussed. Pisser, but true. If sufficient air feeds the decaying bodies of threads past and resultant gasses of interest float the remains to the surface of the swamp we call the board–(ish! this analogy is disgusting)–then who are you, or we, to question the sensitive noses of cadaver hounds who detect compelling olfactory meaning in the cadavers? Sorry, I just grossed myself out. Veb ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/die-thread-die/32269/20 "2000-09-07T04:00:40Z")
If a poster had started a new thread about the same topic, somebody would have come along and pointed out the old one anyway. Look on the bright side - the newbie figured out the search feature.