# Spectre, can you rethink that thread closure? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 2, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-can-you-rethink-that-thread-closure/591132 "2011-08-02T02:17:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-can-you-rethink-that-thread-closure/591132/1 "2011-08-02T02:17:37Z")
First of all, I humble myself before you. I should have posted an explanation beyond my flip remark. Thing is, I saw **Eve** had posted, which made me think of **Wang-Ka**. I did a search for his threads, and that one came up. I was rushing off to work, and I foolishly didn’t think about a mod being the first to reply. So I humbly submit the post I should have made: > [@](#): > > Should have been posted by **Rilchiam** > I know this is not a pleasant subject, but as I said once in this thread, it’s still worth contemplation. There are probably currently active posters who have never seen it, and, y’know, maybe it’s something that should be read. I also wonder how certain threads earlier this year would have gone if I’d remembered it then and linked it. It’s upsetting, to be sure, but it’s something that AFAWK really happened, as opposed to a hypothetical situation, or a news item that no one posting was involved in. > > And where the eff is **Wang-Ka**? I miss him! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-can-you-rethink-that-thread-closure/591132/2 "2011-08-02T02:22:26Z")
This is talking about [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=213577), by the way. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-can-you-rethink-that-thread-closure/591132/3 "2011-08-02T04:23:18Z")
**Rilchiam** , I can understand how the thread might have been (or may still be) interesting to newer members. I know the rules about zombies have been relaxed, but I don’t really think it was a good candidate for revival. **Master Wang-Ka** hasn’t been active since 2006, and he’s not around to expand or possibly update the thread. And it’s been too long to just pick it up again. Many of the other posters are no longer here, either, although some are still quite active, including yourself. But after such a long time, the flow of the thread is going to be severely interrupted to just pick up as if people were posting in it only yesterday. I’m sure there would have been no problem if you had started your own thread with this in the OP: > [@](#): > > Should have been posted by Rilchiam > I know this is not a pleasant subject, but as I said once in this thread, it’s still worth contemplation. There are probably currently active posters who have never seen it, and, y’know, maybe it’s something that should be read. I also wonder how certain threads earlier this year would have gone if I’d remembered it then and linked it. It’s upsetting, to be sure, but it’s something that AFAWK really happened, as opposed to a hypothetical situation, or a news item that no one posting was involved in. > > And where the eff is Wang-Ka? I miss him! and added a link to the original thread. > **[Sometimes The Bad Guys Win (WARNING: NOT funny. Disturbing)](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=213577)** > > First of all, this ain’t a funny story. No, seriously. Not funny. Kind of sick, actually. Certainly offensive. Especially to women, most likely. But it’s not funny, nor is it intended to be. To anyone. If it is anything, it is an object lesson, and... I’m not trying to junior mod (if I am, I submit myself to whatever humiliation the mods deem necessary), but I know this is the preferred way to bring back a thread like this. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-can-you-rethink-that-thread-closure/591132/4 "2011-08-02T04:59:43Z")
Okay, I’ll do that, if the mods are okay with it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-can-you-rethink-that-thread-closure/591132/5 "2011-08-02T05:18:56Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-can-you-rethink-that-thread-closure/591132/6 "2011-08-02T05:54:16Z")
I was going to come here and ask that it be unlocked. The solution to start a new thread is alright, though. I am a recent SDMB poster, just now saw that thread, and thought the message was really powerful. But I can understand the anti-zombie rules. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-can-you-rethink-that-thread-closure/591132/7 "2011-08-02T14:20:33Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Okay, I’ll do that, if the mods are okay with it. Not my forum, but I think **cochrane** has given a good explanation of our usual reasoning on zombie threads. When a discussion involves a large number of posters who are no longer active, it’s better to start a new discussion and link to the old one. I wouldn’t see a problem with starting a new thread like that. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2011, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spectre-can-you-rethink-that-thread-closure/591132/8 "2011-08-07T21:12:01Z")
Apologies for not responding to this thread earlier; I just noticed it. **cochrane** is correct; in a case like this it’s best to start a new thread with a link to the old. If you do start a new thread you can PM me and I’ll put a link in the old thread also.