Thank you for your concern, but I don’t see what Miller posted significantly changing the behavior of the people in question.
I agree, but I also think “not talking about them and pretending they don’t exist” will do so either. Just my opinion, and it is also my opinion that nothing will change their behavior.
No, the worst thing is when you open a thread, and it’s a zombie, and you see a familiar poster… and he’s dead.
Along a vaguely related line, you ever open a thread, start skimming through it, and catch on a very nicely thought out, well-written post by someone who obviously looks at things the same way you do?
Only to see that it’s a post from you, like three years before?
I have, on occasion, thought of a witty reply to an OP, only to realize that I’d already made exactly the same joke, some three or four years earlier.
Bonus points if, at first, I’m disappointed to see that someone beat me to it, before I realize I’m reading my own post.
Actually had that happen once. A first-time poster raised a zombie just to say hi to an friend they had lost touch with a long time ago (they found the thread via Google). Unfortunately the friend had passed away several years earlier. It creeped me out to see a zombie thread that really had raised the dead.
You would think so, wouldn’t ya. But people do some crazy things on the internet.
That would depend on which poster, no?
I’ve done this too.
opens new thread
scrolls through
“I think I’ll say this if no one else does” starts a sentence in notepad
scrolls through… “FUCK someone already said it!”
It was … ME! :smack:
Maybe I’ll start quoting myself instead next time it happens.
I think I remember that. Askia, right?
Yes, that was it.
Yep, I, too, find someone else making all the points I was thinking and then realize it was me.