I think there should be some incentive for that, like make those kinds of comments a spotlight or something. Maybe make a community called “late replies” that showcases the best such replies, or have a rule saying they grant free karma (in Reddit’s case).

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
    33·
    2 months ago

    I think the term would be “necrobump”, and Im not sure why you want to encourage it? If a thread is active for 5 months sure, but otherwise everyone has moved on…

    • livus@kbin.social
      2·
      2 months ago

      I still get necrobumps from reddit on year-old comments despite having left reddit. It’s weird.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 months ago

      necrobump

      What a horrible name for “people responding to a thread that is older than a mayfly”.

      Suggesting something a few months old is “dead” is especially churn-y; like “Ahmahagawd, that thread is, like, SO last-heartbeaaat”. Ensure the voice dissolves into an indolent vocal fry for best effects.

      • CameronDev@programming.dev
        1·
        2 months ago

        Its a fairly established internet term and/or culture. This isnt a “zoomers have no attention span thing”, its been a thing since the dawn of the internet.

        Life moves on.

    • CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      People only posting on new things makes a place seem less like a community and more like people are just being trendy.

      Side note, necrobump sounds like a great name for a heavy metal band.

    • over_clox@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Every once in a blue moon, I’ll skim over my saved posts and comments. Even more rare, occasionally I might respond months later if I think I apparently forgot to respond when the thread was fresh.

      Just a couple or few days ago I responded to a comment from like 6 months ago where someone asked me for a link to a project of mine.

      Regardless, that’s very rare, even for me.

    • Today@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I sort by new and always mean to go back to look at old things but usually forget. Guess i need to hit the hot button occasionally.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I haven’t recently, but when I am trying to solve a problem and come across a post/comment which does a great job of helping me out, I’ll sometimes post a “thank you” to the author. On the receiving end of things, I had posted a couple of kinda useful scripts in the PowerShell sub-reddit and would get both “thank yous” and questions regarding those scripts from time to time. I also had a really popular post (it’s still linked in the wiki) in the cordcutters sub-reddit which elicited questions years later.

    Otherwise, this experience is far more common.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 months ago

      I kudos answers constantly. Half the time it’s my own, which means my account knew the answer and posted it, but I remember none of this.

      I may be multiple personalities, and I may not even be the smart one.

  • RAM@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    2 months ago

    I think that might happen more often on mastodon, since if you reply to a thread there, it gets boosted to all your followers.

    It might be interesting to add a sorting method to Lemmy, that would bump posts every time a comment is added.

    Perhaps something to turn on for each community individually ?

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      1·
      2 months ago

      “sort by recent comments” and “show posts I’ve seen but with new comments”?

      Both settings I don’t know actually exist.

  • UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 months ago

    April 18th.

    If I see the person still active on the platform I’ll try my luck. Otherwise if it seems like they are the only ones on the whole internet who (possibly) knows how to help with my problem, but that’ll more likely result in a DM.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
      2·
      2 months ago

      It almost time to celebrate the 12th birthday of “can splunk stop being absolutely fucking clueless and claiming their stupidity is a legal problem only they suffer” ticket about authenticated yum repos.

      Usually I find my own answer to a Stack Overflow problem I’m having today, but I wrote it two years ago. And that means I’ll have that time machine one day. Woot!