What's the deal with people necroreacting to my posts?

[ForgedBlades]

The last few weeks I've seen a dramatic spike in people liking and reacting to posts I've made in long dead threads from as far back as 2016. What's the deal with this? Is it bots? Any other oldfags noticing this?

 

[Cherry Eyed Hamster]

It’s me trying to get away from the onslaught of retarded newfags populating the site these past few months.

 

[DankSmoker]

I suppose that's better than the guy I got that keeps replying to random posts with "I've been watching you for quite awhile now."

I wonder what I did to set him off, it's mildly annoying though, so I'll give him that.

 

[OrionBalls]

Sometimes you get bored and pull up a thread from a simpler time.

 

[everybody in Portugal]

Newfags reading through old threads, is my guess. It's better than them just wading in and commenting stupid shit that's already been said without reading through first, maybe?

 

[Moths]

Sometimes when reading through threads ill hit that ole reacct button without reading what date they were posted

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

Would you rather they necroreply to your posts just to call you a nigger?

 

[urr13 account]

why are people here so sensitive about stickers?

• I'm not getting enough stickers!
• I'm getting too many stickers!
• The stickers im getting arent the stickers I want to be getting!
• They gave me the bad stickers but I want the good stickers!
• I'm getting stickers on posts that are too old!

you're a faggot.

 

[DankSmoker]

why are people here so sensitive about stickers?

• I'm not getting enough stickers!
• I'm getting too many stickers!
• The stickers im getting arent the stickers I want to be getting!
• They gave me the bad stickers but I want the good stickers!
• I'm getting stickers on posts that are too old!

you're a faggot.

I gave this post a sticker!

 

[Huh what?]

A lot of the old posts I like are from users who stopped posting years ago. The chances of them logging back on are pretty low, so they'll probably never even see it.

 

[s0m3dood]

RTFM:

Are ratings/stickers important? Do they affect anything? Do they even matter?
No, no, and no. They're mostly just used to easily display the value of a post and to reward/punish good/bad posts respectively. Your resulting score also doesn't matter, although you might be made fun of for having a low score. In general, it's a Skinner box to encourage better posts, and a user's resulting score is just a decent means of determining their presence on the forum.

Should I get angry over ratings? What about constantly rating people I don't like negatively?
If you're going to, make sure it's done as publicly as possible so everyone else can enjoy the show. Rating people negatively en masse (neg-rating) or rating a person negatively because they did the same to you (revenge-rating) can get your privileges to even give ratings revoked if you're annoying enough.

You need to up your efforts on the second rule.

 

[Smigger]

It’s me trying to get away from the onslaught of retarded newfags populating the site these past few months.

You can't outrun me; I'm your shadow.

 

[ForgedBlades]

IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN TONIGHT WTF

 

[toe_schnitzel6969]

what if we had reaction niggers instead. that would be awesome

 

[2mm and 99 others]

Sometimes I reply in a thread that was bumped recently and don't notice the previous posts are years old, even tho on the same page.
Anyway, just make posts that age well.
Maybe nothing much is happening these days and people are bored, so they want to discuss older threads.