Or sometimes you’re reading an old zombie thread and wish you could go back in time to set all these idiots straight, and then you see past-you jump into the thread and set all the idiots straight, and you mentally high-five yourself.
I’m Not Going To Miss You.
Released in Sept, 2014.
So he IS a zombie?
Too soon?
ISTM that button encourages posting after reading only the title, not even the actual OP. Which a hell of a lot of posters seem to do.
The last post date is useful if you’re about to revive the zombie yourself. Far more common is a newbie revives the zombie then 6 old heads respond, each only looking at the date of the immediately previous post. Which is fresh.
Here’s just such an example from just this afternoon: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20344661#post20344661 .
It’s never too soon to make fun of zombies or 1970s music. But I’m cold that way.
So you have 7 new thoughts on it, great, what’s the problem?
Damn, I hate it when my typos keep getting quoted. I meant, he’s in the last stages of Alzheimer’s. Damn auto incorrect.
Well, like most celebrities, he did have a swell head. Large stages of Alzheimer’s indeed. 
All I did was point out that someone could be reading the board and not be logged in and you keep fighting me on that. Do I really need to come up with more reasons for you to shoot down? As long as you can acknowledge that it’s possible, that’s all that matters.
You won’t acknowledge my point, so no. And I seem to be aggravating you, so I’ll stop now.
Your point is irrelevant, and not only did I acknowledge it, I answered it, multiple times.
Your point:
TommyTutone joined in 2000. Why would someone who had been here that long start lurking instead of signing in?
My reply:
Don’t know. Could be lots of reason. Besides, it’s irrelevant since the rule seems to, at least in part, be based on an arbitrary time since the OP last logged in, not last read the board. For all you know, they subscribed to the thread, got a message that it was bumped and now can’t reply.
Like I said earlier, I lurk on a handful of boards that I don’t actively post to any more (GB being one of them). The last active date only means the last time you were signed in.
You shot that down for some unknown reason:
That doesn’t mean everybody else does. Boards like this one, and GB, will automatically log you in if you checked the “Remember Me” box
I gave several more reasons:
And what if you didn’t check that box?
What if you got a new computer?
What if you reset your cache?
What if the board software logged you out?
What if, for your own personal reasons, you still wanted to read the boards, but didn’t want to be logged in so you purposely logged out and didn’t log back in?
You went back to ‘but WHY would someone do that?’
Why decide to log out all of a sudden, and not log back in?
I figured that all the above reasons really should be sufficient and (and again, it’s not the ‘why’ that matters):
Do I really need to come up with more reasons for you to shoot down?
If you think I didn’t acknowledge your point, you must have been skipping my posts.
Calm down. I said I’ll stop. Take it easy.
nm.
Lo those many years ago when the dinosaurs roamed the plains I was petitioning to have a sticky thread here or maybe in MPSIMS with links to all the nifty userscripts people have made over the years but the idea didn’t get any traction. Sure I’d love to see the improved version. I hadn’t looked at that script in about 5 years but still have it running (with a slightly less bold and large text than the default)
Cool. It uses CSS 3 selectors to change the styles before the DOM actually loads. But then, after the DOM loads, it falls back to your JavaScript version in case the CSS messes anything up.
It’s something I learned rewriting the stand-alone Old Smileys script. On any script I make, I now try to do what I can using CSS first, to minimize pop-in.
Anyways, I’ll PM it not to junk up this thread.