[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'138168\' date=\'Nov 18 2006, 08:59 AM\']
[quote name=\'Tim L\' post=\'138162\' date=\'Nov 18 2006, 01:39 AM\']
Also, some consider it not good form to reply to posts over a year old..Just a caution..Enjoy your stay..[/quote]
I had a thought about this. It's possible that a newbie with a specific interest (vintage TVG schedules, for example) was drawn here by a Google search that happened to identify an old post of ours. He very well could have entered our forum on an old page. That seems a lot more likely than somebody carefully poring through hundreds of pages before deciding that his first post would relate to something so ancient. Maybe we should back off from that criticism a little.
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For whatever it's worth, the two threads he started today show that at least he's interested in something other than schedules. Of course, he could have found us through the Google search in Matt's hypothetical example and then decided to stay. Either way, it usually doesn't take long to determine a new poster's intent.
I know that it's tempting to think that there are many more people like tmq800, who often replied to one-year-old posts because he couldn't think of anything else to do after he was ordered not to stalk Steve Beverly, or gshowguy, who saw nothing wrong with replying to a two- or three-year-dormant thread with comments about foreign shows that had absolutely anything to do with the topic of the thread. Let's give Chris a chance.