# Re-responding to a zombie thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 23, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034 "2013-12-23T20:31:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/21 "2018-12-24T02:16:39Z")
These are not the posts we were looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/22 "2018-12-24T02:26:04Z")
Oh yes, it’s happened to me. I didn’t remember the thread, answered in the now, and then went back and saw my first response. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/23 "2018-12-24T03:13:36Z")
How about being the last poster to a thread and then come along 5 years later to unknowingly respond to the zombie and you kill it again? Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/24 "2018-12-24T04:32:51Z")
> [@Orr\_G](#): > > I’m just posting in this thread so I’ll have something clever to say in five years. > [@Orr\_G](#): > > Well, damn. You’d think that would have been enough time to come up with something. > [@Lumpy](#): > > See you in 2023. I have to know: Is your memory that good or did you keep notes or just what? An impressive feat, no matter which! I just hope I’m around in five years to see how this goes… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/25 "2018-12-24T05:11:10Z")
I haven’t been here long enough, I don’t think. OTOH, I post alot. So , maybe. Does this make this thread a zombie of a zombie? Cool. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/26 "2018-12-24T06:49:59Z")
I almost posted something here, then realized I was the OP. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/27 "2018-12-24T13:51:07Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I almost posted something here, then realized I was the OP. Looks to me like you did just post something here. ---
**Author:** ![Orr\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ee59a6/32.png) [@Orr\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orr_G)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/28 "2018-12-24T17:06:27Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I have to know: Is your memory that good or did you keep notes or just what? > > An impressive feat, no matter which! > > I just hope I’m around in five years to see how this goes… Mostly luck, actually. A couple of months ago, I was trying to find an old post of mine and I stumbled across that one. Bookmarked it so I would remember to post. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/29 "2018-12-24T17:28:50Z")
> [@Orr\_G](#): > > Mostly luck, actually. A couple of months ago, I was trying to find an old post of mine and I stumbled across that one. Bookmarked it so I would remember to post. Thanks for that. Quite logical. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/30 "2018-12-24T20:07:18Z")
Usually when I see its a zombie I do a search for posts by me. There have been a time or two when I realized it was a zombie and also realized my opinion had changed. If so I will sometimes post noting that. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/31 "2018-12-24T21:09:01Z")
I stumbled on a quick way to check if I’ve posted already. I clicked on the “number of posts” instead of the “last post” symbol at the right-hand end. A new mini-window pops up with the names of every poster. Now, that’s what I do before posting to a long existing thread. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/32 "2018-12-24T22:27:41Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > Usually when I see its a zombie I do a search for posts by me. There have been a time or two when I realized it was a zombie and also realized my opinion had changed. If so I will sometimes post noting that. > [@AskNott](#): > > I stumbled on a quick way to check if I’ve posted already. I clicked on the “number of posts” instead of the “last post” symbol at the right-hand end. A new mini-window pops up with the names of every poster. Now, that’s what I do before posting to a long existing thread. Don’t you guys see a little check mark on the threads you’ve already posted to? I do. Maybe it depends on the skin you’re using? Or the type of device? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/33 "2018-12-25T01:11:33Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Don’t you guys see a little check mark on the threads you’ve already posted to? I do. Maybe it depends on the skin you’re using? Or the type of device? No checkmark on mine; classic and an older Mac. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/34 "2018-12-25T14:11:22Z")
> [@Orr\_G](#): > > Well, damn. You’d think that would have been enough time to come up with something. I thought that was pretty good. Once I did search on a topic only to find out I had started an identical thread years earlier. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034/35 "2018-12-25T14:58:53Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I knew it was inevitable; in fact I don’t know why it took so long. Or most likely I’ve done it before and didn’t notice: > > Responding to a [zombie thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=516210) that I had already responded to, the first time around. In fact, telling exactly the same story. > > Ever happen to you? So often that the virtually identical posts have been unsettling to me (cue cartoon video of me checking my skin for hidden battery compartments etc) [random example](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=259552) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-responding-to-a-zombie-thread/677034.md?page=1)