I think there should be some incentive for that, like make those kinds of comments a spotlight or something. Maybe make a community called “late replies” that showcases the best such replies, or have a rule saying they grant free karma (in Reddit’s case).
- CameronDev ( @CameronDev@programming.dev ) 29•5 months ago
I think the term would be “necrobump”, and Im not sure why you want to encourage it? If a thread is active for 5 months sure, but otherwise everyone has moved on…
- e0qdk ( @e0qdk@reddthat.com ) 19•5 months ago
I think the term would be “necrobump”
That’s from old school forums where posting to a thread bumped it back to the top of the feed and thus thrust old info prominently into everyone’s view again. You won’t get that same bump effect with most sorts on Lemmy. (“New comments” sort might work like that though? I’m not sure exactly how that’s handled.)
otherwise everyone has moved on
It’s pretty rare to get much of a response even after just 24 hours or so – not just in terms of comments, but even for upvotes. I think after that point, posts are usually so far down people’s feeds that almost no one sees it any more. That probably also discourages most people from replying since basically no one will see it. (Maybe the poster of the thread or comment you’re replying to will see it, but probably almost no one else will if it’s more than a day or so old.)
Some people do dig through community archives and/or user profiles – particularly after a new thread is posted – and they’ll occasionally upvote old posts, but they very rarely comment.
- CameronDev ( @CameronDev@programming.dev ) 10•5 months ago
Its not a global bump, but it does bump it back into conciousness for the person being replied to. Ive had it happen a few times on lemmy, and its always so confusing because i had completely forgotten what i had originally said.
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 6•5 months ago
I’m not against necrobumping in certain contexts. If I have a tech support question, I can promise you I’m still clueless after 5 months. Also a niche creative project can take over 5 months to find it’s audience, and creators are usually happy to hear feedback.
- CameronDev ( @CameronDev@programming.dev ) 4•5 months ago
Answering an unanswered question is definitely valid. Feedback for a niche creative project may be better served by a new post, but a late comment is fine as well.
I dont have a problem with necrobumping, but i dont think it deserves to be promoted or incentivesed in a “bestof5monthslater” showcase.
Anything that can be gamed for imaginary internet points will be abused, and it wont be long before there is a flood of “Upvote if your still reading in 2025 🥳🤠🤯” comments.
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 3•5 months ago
Oh, that’s true. I’ve spent so much time on Lemmy I lived in a world where “who else is still listening to this wildly popular song in 2024??” didn’t exist
- Tiefling IRL ( @tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 4•5 months ago
Oh man, that brings back memories of necroposting on old IPB forums
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 2•5 months ago
I still get necrobumps from reddit on year-old comments despite having left reddit. It’s weird.
People only posting on new things makes a place seem less like a community and more like people are just being trendy.
Side note, necrobump sounds like a great name for a heavy metal band.
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 1•5 months ago
necrobump
What a horrible name for “people responding to a thread that is older than a mayfly”.
Suggesting something a few months old is “dead” is especially churn-y; like “Ahmahagawd, that thread is, like, SO last-heartbeaaat”. Ensure the voice dissolves into an indolent vocal fry for best effects.
- CameronDev ( @CameronDev@programming.dev ) 2•5 months ago
Its a fairly established internet term and/or culture. This isnt a “zoomers have no attention span thing”, its been a thing since the dawn of the internet.
Life moves on.
- HobbitFoot ( @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ) English9•5 months ago
Never. God no, why?
People only ever replying to new things makes it seem less like a community.
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English9•5 months ago
RemindMe! 5 months
- INHALE_VEGETABLES ( @INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone ) 2•5 months ago
Do we have a remind me bot?
- PatMustard ( @PatMustard@feddit.uk ) English7•5 months ago
Thankfully not, I don’t miss scrolling past publicly-posted comments which could have just been the save button!
- Mambert ( @Mambert@beehaw.org ) 5•5 months ago
Waiting 5 months to reply to this.
- TheFriar ( @TheFriar@lemm.ee ) 4•5 months ago
Well you blew your load in 11hrs.
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 1•5 months ago
Whoa. Tantric.
- Mambert ( @Mambert@beehaw.org ) 1•5 months ago
Question in post was never about replying for the first time.
- TheFriar ( @TheFriar@lemm.ee ) 3•5 months ago
I was just kidding
- InfiniWheel ( @InfiniWheel@lemmy.one ) 3•5 months ago
Lemmy still tends to show posts from ages ago in hot, so some slip by
- RAM ( @RAM@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•5 months ago
I think that might happen more often on mastodon, since if you reply to a thread there, it gets boosted to all your followers.
It might be interesting to add a sorting method to Lemmy, that would bump posts every time a comment is added.
Perhaps something to turn on for each community individually ?
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) 1•5 months ago
“sort by recent comments” and “show posts I’ve seen but with new comments”?
Both settings I don’t know actually exist.
- JCPhoenix ( @JCPhoenix@beehaw.org ) English2•5 months ago
Within the last year, I’ve definitely had some replies to old threads of mine. And if it’s a question, I’ll respond. And I think I did comment on another’s thread at least once, confirming and thanking them for the solution. All of these were tech support related. I feel like that’s one of the few topical areas where that’s acceptable.
- e0qdk ( @e0qdk@reddthat.com ) 2•5 months ago
Just the other day, I got a reply to a thread from ~6 months ago on kbin!
It was spam. :/
- Revan343 ( @Revan343@lemmy.ca ) 1•5 months ago
Gonna have to come back here in five months