Millie cameo?

[TyVulpine]

Was rereading the Mynarski Forest archives, and came across this strip:

http://mynarskiforest.purrsia.com/xsl99_46.htm

I think that's Millie on the right....

[The J.A.M.]

Or, you COULD read the captions and see that it IS INDEED Millie?

[Llewthepoet]

It's already been covered, man, but nice try!

[Rooster]

Skippy had better just be glad my Isabel hadn't been born back then or he'd be stew right now

[TyVulpine]

Or, you COULD read the captions and see that it IS INDEED Millie?

Apparently, I'm blind....

[sandblaster]

Nobody reafs the captions on things

[santi]

Nobody reafs the captions on things

does this count as a necroed thread?

[Muninn]

I don't think so. Not acording to me anyway.

The post wasn't made at too large an interval and this particular topic hadn't drifted beyond the first page, which is, for this part of the forum, time long enough to warrant necromancy.

Such a long answer for a simple question.

[Dr. Doog]

I could have answered the question with a shorter answer.

of course, it would have involved me necroing the first thread still on the board, and then linking to it saying "no. this is."

[sandblaster]

what is memocracy?

[Dr. Doog]

it's a system of government under which all actions must be sent as memos to the leaders, who then right memos back to the people who commit the actions.

[The MAZZTer]

Necromancy is a fictional concept about the ability to raise the dead into zombies, usually to do the necromancer's will (army of undead, etc).

In the concept of forums, it means someone "resurrected" a "dead" thread by posting in a thread that has fallen off the first page of threads (or further on busier boards), bringing it back to the top of the list.

It is frowned upon because it can often mislead users into thinking the entire thread is new content (until they remember it). It is especially bad if the added post contributes nothing particularly useful to the discussion... IE a follow-up post from the original thread author giving new, updated information on the thread topic would not be considered necromancy, but a "hey this is cool" post would definitely be.

It is often convenient to use the amount of time between the last old post and the new post to judge whether thread necromancy has occurred. Some forums have set values for this, and if one is crossed a moderator can delete/close a thread due to necromancy. A common value is one month, however I personally like the value of two weeks. I still consider anything from one to two weeks annoying, however.

[sandblaster]

well this was on the front page and I hardly understand how posting in a thread can be bad. its not like a forum has ever suffered from too much activitry

[Kyler Thatch]

Well, if someone sees a new post in some old thread that everyone's forgotten about already (thinking "what th'heck is this?"), reads some old posts trying to remember what it was about, and then sees some (relatively) insignificant post after all that, I'm pretty sure they'd be annoyed about wasting those few minutes. Considering the internet, I wouldn't be surprised if some others would be a bit furious.

[The MAZZTer]

well this was on the front page and I hardly understand how posting in a thread can be bad. its not like a forum has ever suffered from too much activitry

You missed the point. Go back and read my post again. Slower this time.

I explained it quite thoroughly.