Corpse robbers!
Most forum owners expect their members to check the boards before starting a new topic, just in case someone has already raised the subject in a previous topic. That’s as it should be – there’s no point in a proliferation of topics all on the same subject.
However, every so often someone takes it into their head to post a reply to a topic that’s died a natural death and been buried several months if not years before. Sometimes they may be doing it entirely innocently and may not even realise how old the topic is (although that seems unlikely if they’ve found it on Page 7 of the board). More often, they’re doing it for their own personal benefit – at best to boost their ego (“Look at how many topics I’ve answered on this board! What an important member of this community I must be!”), at worst to promote their own website, service or product (especially if they’ve included an advert in their sig).
Occasionally they’ll throw in a snide comment about how little traffic the board seems to be getting. What purpose can that serve, beyond encouraging the forum’s members to move elsewhere – to the poster’s own website, no doubt?
Don’t emulate these twits. You’ll only annoy the Site Admins.
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