# Zombie Threads - How? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 24, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threads-how/785157 "2017-04-24T19:25:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threads-how/785157/41 "2017-04-27T05:49:01Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I’ve also never understood the rage against bumping an old thread or why everyone feels the need to trip over themselves to be the first to post a zombie joke…but that’s just me. This. On occasion I have resurrected a very old thread to post new, relevant information (such as the answer to a long-unanswered question in GQ) or to ask someone for an update on what was once a running story. When I do this I’m fully aware that the thread is years old, and even acknowledge this in the post. And yet the first few replies to such posts are usually zombie jokes. This is stupid and I wish people would cut it out. You’re not being clever by teasingly pointing out something that was writ large upthread. Even less so if you’re the fourth person in a row to do it, and are recycling the same tired zombie references that appear in countless other threads. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threads-how/785157/42 "2017-04-27T11:43:19Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I saw some posts where I found myself agreeing with the poster in all particulars, only to find he was me. I can’t agree with myself IRL, why can I on the innertubes? Once I was googling a subject, trying to find someone that agreed with me. There were two songs that I thought were uncannily similar but it felt like I was the only person in the world that saw it. Then I found someone remarking on this in a google groups thread. Cool, I thought - I’m NOT the only one. Then I sensed a …familiarity…in the google post. Not only did the author share my opinion, they sort of wrote like me. Then I scrolled to the bottom. I saw a sig line. Then I realized I was looking at something I had posted in alt-fan.cecil adams over 15 years ago. The entire forum was migrated into google groups . So I guess I WAS the only one. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threads-how/785157/43 "2017-04-27T12:46:13Z")
The very first message board I joined was pro-zombie. If you posted a topic that had already been discussed last year, you’d be given a link to the old thread and told to post your thoughts there. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threads-how/785157/44 "2017-05-07T02:51:32Z")
You know what’s fun about zombie threads? You start reading one, come across a few banned posters, realize its six years old, then notice a few people who posted to it _are online, right now!_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threads-how/785157/45 "2017-05-07T07:24:47Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Once I was googling a subject, trying to find someone that agreed with me. There were two songs that I thought were uncannily similar but it felt like I was the only person in the world that saw it. > > Then I found someone remarking on this in a google groups thread. Cool, I thought - I’m NOT the only one. > > Then I sensed a …familiarity…in the google post. Not only did the author share my opinion, they sort of wrote like me. > > Then I scrolled to the bottom. I saw a sig line. Then I realized I was looking at something I had posted in alt-fan.cecil adams over 15 years ago. The entire forum was migrated into google groups . > > So I guess I WAS the only one. Speaking of being the “only one”. > **[How do you get listed in the Social Register](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=730682)** > > My name is Joseph Yerkes Jeanes II, born in Bryn Mawr, PA. I was listed in the Philadelphia Register as the son of Isaac Warner Jeanes II and Frances Parham (Jeanes). My parents were deathly ill and I was in California during my parents illnesses.... ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threads-how/785157/46 "2017-05-07T13:16:25Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > Speaking of being the “only one”. > > [How do you get listed in the Social Register - Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=730682) I’m sitting here trying to wrap my puny mortal brain around those posts. Aside from the novelty of someone returning to a deserted thread almost three years later to clarify a point (though it did not), or the fact that these two posts were the OP’s only ones, so much of it made no sense. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threads-how/785157/47 "2017-05-07T16:17:02Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Some boards want you to search a topic and post to the existing thread if it exists. I’m guessing the resurrectionists are actually using old school courtesy. I remember back when use of ASCII characters was frowned upon, but technology changed that. It still feels forbidden to me. I remember when we didn’t even have characters. We’d just go down the cave, paint an abstract representation of our OP in ochre on the walls. I draw bison - dead bison - confused looking man in silly hat. They were all the rage back then. I come back later and someone has written bison - hole full of spikes - dead bison. Then, if it worked, I’d write back bison impaled on spikes - me with full belly - me burning offering to god of spikes. Just a perfectly normal message board conversation with no ritualistic significance. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threads-how/785157/48 "2017-05-08T04:40:07Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > It’s really a sign that this site does very, very well in Google with the kind of evergreen exposure that many would pay millions for. I’ve googled many random things that had a thread or threads from here ranking near the top. You do realize that Google personalizes the search results, right? Web sites _you_ visit frequently are ranked high in _your_ search results. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threads-how/785157.md?page=2)