For me, it was that the Internet never forgets and that you should never enter your real name. In my opinion, both of these rules are now completely ignored.

  • rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    some guy asking your question and being told to start a new thread instead.

    If it’s done within a reasonable time period, it’s understandable. Hours or a day or two later depending on the forum.

    It’s different when someone saunters in years later with the “I’ve got the same problem!” quip to a post that may or may not actually be the same, and actually expects a response. That, to me, is necroposting.

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      35 minutes ago

      This is the attitude that leads us to search results polluted with forum threads with bad, unchallengeable ideas (because they’re locked). Almost all web1 forum are becoming digital flotsam because of these bad moderator opinions.