I am way more annoyed by the zombie jokes than by the zombie threads, so, yeah, lock 'em.
New people who come here probably think these are all zombie threads.
Of course, this is by no means a characteristic limited to newbies reviving old threads. We have plenty of posters who do the same thing in current threads, even some who have been around for years.
Ha - I have to laugh at myself; I just unwittingly posted to a zombie thread. Albeit after it had been resurrected for ten posts by the time I added to it.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=452576&page=3
So, umm, yeah.
Yeah. Has anyone come up with some examples of this “complete asshole” behavior, so we can all know what we’re talking about? Most of us can probably agree that the “zombie thread” and “BRAAAAINS!” shit is an gag that’s worn out its welcome, but that doesn’t make it abusive. Got some examples of actual rudeness?
If someone is so sensitive that a “zombie” comment scares them away forever, I wish them best of luck finding an online forum that doesn’t have its in-jokes.
At least the person that called attention to it wasn’t obnoxious or cute. Not necessary, perhaps, but nothing to really complain about either. At least they had more to add than “ZOMBIE!!!”.
I’m much more a fan of vampires over zombies, except for that Twilight shit. Buffy/Angel, True Blood, Dracula, Nosferatu, etc. vs. World War Z, Walking Dead, Shaun of the Dead, etc. Actually it’s closer than I thought, but I still give my nod to the bloodsuckers.
I noticed the explosion (well, increase) of zombie threads before I had heard the rule was relaxed. It was a bit disconcerting to think that we were suddenly being invaded from fluidic space or some such thing. Once you understand the new, relaxed rule about zombies it’s really no big deal, and can even give some small bit of entertainment. It’s more work for the mods, but if they’re up for it, so be it. I’m not so sure it helps in terms of increased subscribers, but it really does not harm. I even chuckle at some of the zombie/brains jokes-- it takes real creativity to make something trite funny, and some people do succeed at that.
That was pretty funny, John! What? Oh. Sorry.
I agree that some of the zombie jokes are pretty creative and funny…Malacandra’s “little-known 3rd verse” of Danny Boy in Post 21 of this 2000 thread that got revived in 2011 is hilarious.
In response to requests for examples of bad behavior, I’m still looking. I remember coming across at least 2 examples in the last couple of weeks, but I can’t seem to find them in search.
It’s only more work in GQ in that there are more thread reports to read, since we don’t routinely do anything about them. But for the most part they don’t need to be reported, unless there is some other issue involved.
Here’s one, although the person posting it has been here < 1 month.
I’ve been taken to task in the past because I haven’t logged in and answered responses every single day.
Its not a job, and none of us have a duty to react to other posters points the following day.
Some people with lots of time on their hands, retired, unemployed etc. fail to realise that many of us have lives outside of these boards (work, travel and social life), and may !gasp, have several days or even weeks between logging in.
As someone fairly new to the dope, I don’t mind the old threads at all. They usually end up being funny.
I like to see a new person be given the benefit of the doubt and be treated with courtesy. That doesn’t have to be without humor.
You guys are a smart group. I love it here, but it took courage to post my first post. Almost everyone here is super nice and helpful and does use gentle humor, but not everyone is so nice.
I know I’m not as smart as most here, but that’s what brought me here. I’m smarter now for reading this board. That’s accomplishing the stated dope mission. But it can be intimidating to ask a question for fear of being teased about errors in grammar or something.
I don’t mind the “me too” posts. Sometimes I’ll do that as a way to subscribe to the thread or just because I want to play too. We’re all just talking here, after all. But heck, they only take a second to read.
But I’d probably almost never ban anyone ever, so what do I know.
We need to lock this thread. It’s getting old.