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).
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…
I think the term would be “necrobump”
That’s from old school forums where posting to a thread bumped it back to the top of the feed and thus thrust old info prominently into everyone’s view again. You won’t get that same bump effect with most sorts on Lemmy. (“New comments” sort might work like that though? I’m not sure exactly how that’s handled.)
otherwise everyone has moved on
It’s pretty rare to get much of a response even after just 24 hours or so – not just in terms of comments, but even for upvotes. I think after that point, posts are usually so far down people’s feeds that almost no one sees it any more. That probably also discourages most people from replying since basically no one will see it. (Maybe the poster of the thread or comment you’re replying to will see it, but probably almost no one else will if it’s more than a day or so old.)
Some people do dig through community archives and/or user profiles – particularly after a new thread is posted – and they’ll occasionally upvote old posts, but they very rarely comment.
Its not a global bump, but it does bump it back into conciousness for the person being replied to. Ive had it happen a few times on lemmy, and its always so confusing because i had completely forgotten what i had originally said.
I still get necrobumps from reddit on year-old comments despite having left reddit. It’s weird.
Oh man, that brings back memories of necroposting on old IPB forums
Never. God no, why?
RemindMe! 5 months
Do we have a remind me bot?
Thankfully not, I don’t miss scrolling past publicly-posted comments which could have just been the save button!
@[email protected] 5 months
@[email protected] 5 months
If this works I’ll thank you. In five months.
Thanks!
More than five months ago
(I sort by new on Lemmy lol)
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.
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.
It would be truly wonderful if this question was asked 5 years ago.
Why? What happened 5 years 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 ?
Lemmy still tends to show posts from ages ago in hot, so some slip by
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.
Waiting 5 months to reply to this.
Well you blew your load in 11hrs.
Question in post was never about replying for the first time.
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.
Last week
Just the other day, I got a reply to a thread from ~6 months ago on kbin!
It was spam. :/