New Accounts Posting on Very Old Threads

[kiwikenobi]

I feel like I see a lot of really old threads being bumped by brand new accounts, where the post that bumped the old thread is their only post. Once or twice, I would chalk it up to coincidence and not even mention it. But I feel like I see this happening a lot. Is there a reason why this might be happening? It doesn't seem to be harmful or anything. They seem to actually be responding to the thread, and not advertising for something or anything like that. Perhaps something about creating a new account causes old threads to be more prominent somehow? It just struck me as odd, but maybe it's just an odd coincidence. ^o^;>

Curious if anyone else noticed this, or if anyone has some kind of theory or explanation.

 

[King koopa]

I feel like I see a lot of really old threads being bumped by brand new accounts, where the post that bumped the old thread is their only post. Once or twice, I would chalk it up to coincidence and not even mention it. But I feel like I see this happening a lot. Is there a reason why this might be happening? It doesn't seem to be harmful or anything. They seem to actually be responding to the thread, and not advertising for something or anything like that. Perhaps something about creating a new account causes old threads to be more prominent somehow? It just struck me as odd, but maybe it's just an odd coincidence. ^o^;>

Curious if anyone else noticed this, or if anyone has some kind of theory or explanation.

Yeah I've noticed that too. I think it might just be a mistake and maybe they forgot to read the date on the posts? I do think it's kind of annoying though, but it's probably just a newbie mistake.

 

[Bluebellie]

It could be someone who searched a question or something online, and the link they clicked brought them here. Then they probably created an account to be able to post and reply. It explains why an old thread was by bumped, and the person being new.

 

[Croconaw]

It could be someone who searched a question or something online, and the link they clicked brought them here. Then they probably created an account to be able to post and reply. It explains why an old thread was by bumped, and the person being new.

This is the most likely reason. Questions about Animal Crossing always link to all types of threads, regardless of the date.

 

[kiwikenobi]

This is starting to make more sense. I can definitely see how new players now would search for the same questions that new players might have asked a year ago or more, and found the old threads that way. I'm glad this isn't just a random thing, there's a sensible reason that it's happening, probably.

 

[Corrie]

It's weird people would bother to make a whole account just to post on one thread though.

 

[StarlitGlitch]

I would think too that they're coming from Google since the results aren't always sorted by newest for forums/reddit.

I haven't noticed this too much myself so I'll try to start paying attention to this.

 

[Croconaw]

It's weird people would bother to make a whole account just to post on one thread though.

The accounts that do typically post on that one thread, and become inactive immediately after that one reply. It is weird.

 

[kiwikenobi]

It's definitely still weird. Just maybe it's making a tiny bit more sense than before. Maybe. ^o^;>

 

[Dwayne Johnson]

it's probably spam bots, they usually have links shoved in their posts

 

[kiwikenobi]

But that's what I was saying--there are no links or advertisements. They seem to be actual posts on the topic of the thread. Very un-bot-like, in my opinion.

 

[Seastar]

I've seen bots trying to imitate normal posts on other forums in the past. It makes no sense why they do it, but oh well.

 

[Croconaw]

I've seen bots trying to imitate normal posts on other forums in the past. It makes no sense why they do it, but oh well.

I’ve seen posts that start off like a normal reply and go very off topic later in the post. It’s like they don’t expect the staff to read the whole thing and after a few sentences they’ll go “okay, this is on topic and informative.”

 

[kiwikenobi]

Huh, maybe they're bots after all. It still seems very strange for bots to post seemingly legitimate posts without any advertisements or anything that might benefit the person who presumably made the bot... bot. And I don't know why they would so frequently choose really old threads. But stranger things have happened, I suppose.

At this point, I'm mostly glad that other people have noticed this phenomenon, and it's not just me. ^o^;>

 

[Bilaz]

I don’t think it’s a bot as a long time forum mod I see this across all forums. Often it’s excitement too, you start a new account and you have things to say on topics on old threads. There’s no rules against it so you post. Eventually when you’re a member for a longer time you’ve seen all topics come and go and you’re no longer so eager to post on some old thing you saw just because the prompt was interesting. You’ve also found out from experience that someone bumping a post from way back when you joined is kinda annoying, so you stop. The cycle then continues with new people. xD Of course some people never stick around to become older users

If not that then they come from google and really wanna answer that one thing and then forget about their account and stop caring. The vast majority of most new forum users of the forum I mod never become fully active members either, it’s normal. Takes a while to actually care about a community.

 

[Midoriya]

They're not humans... and they're not bots either... they're cyborgs... from outer space.

All joking aside, I noticed this a LONG time ago and just never said anything about it. I can tell you that they aren't bots, however, for reasons people listed above. They're just newbs that really want to reply to certain thread topics, lol.

 

[b100ming]

This is the most likely reason. Questions about Animal Crossing always link to all types of threads, regardless of the date.

Thats actually how I found this tbh…

Post automatically merged: Oct 5, 2021

They're not humans... and they're not bots either.

THEY KNOW TOO MUCH!!!

 

[Brumbo]

When I join a fourm site I look at everything, I try to go to the very last page and just, go from there
Sometimes I just don't notice the dates either lol

 

[Corndoggy]

i remember when i first joined i got really excited and commented on a lot of topics, regardless of time posted

 

[b100ming]

You guys do know you’re bumping a 20 day old thread, riiiiight??