Necroposting question

Munchies:
Hey all!

I've noticed an uptick in necroposting lately, and I'm curious as to why. When I say necroposting, I'm specifically talking about posting to threads that have been dead for a year or more.

I've seen people necropost to personal ads long after OP left. I've seen people bump 14 year old threads where the majority of the users either deleted or are no longer on the site. Just last night, someone bumped a 4 year old post to leave personal medical data.

This is not a call out post. I'm genuinely curious as to why you do what you do.

I appreciate all of your responses!

Enas:
Well, ill suggest the first thing that comes to mind: statistical anomaly.

Munchies:
Okay, but that doesn't answer my question. It just acknowledges that necroposting is a thing. Yeah, most people don't do it, but it still happens.


In the personals section it could be people getting to forum posts through profiles instead of the forums. It also doesn’t take very much scrolling to get to some pretty old threads here. It’s not the most active site on the planet.
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Views and likes in the ‘my stories’ area

Kitsune:
From what I've discovered. Google Analytics can measure pageviews automatically. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be beginner friendly if you have no experience with HTML.


Some sites let you know how many bots are crawling it at any given time, which is a little unnerving, I think!
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Adding images in a chapter

Abicon:
Is it possible to add images in a chapter in a story? If so how.
THX in advance.


It is currently not possible. There’s a Graphic Novel checkbox, which is a feature that I believe we are still hoping will be added in the future, but there’s not a timetable for it that I’m aware of.

You could add illustrations to “my pics” and put a hyperlink, or some other note that the chapter has an illustration. Links in stories aren’t clickable, but can be copied and pasted. I had a book on here with illustrations and I just had a note at the beginning to check My Pics for them. The people who were interested did.

That’s the best I’ve got! Other people might have ideas.
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Favorite concerts, live music shows?

BlobInProgress1:
I'm going to see Marillion (my favourite band) in May for what will be the 8 and 9th time (they're doing two different gigs at the same venue in two days) and if you're into bands like Pink Floyd and Radiohead they're the greatest band you've never heard of ?si=iAbQmKbGBSuw7Itu



I got to see them once about a million years ago. It was the first time they had toured the us in a long time, maybe more than a decade, and they were playing small clubs. Completely killed it. They were awesome. The tour for marbles.
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