Golden Horde!

[caravel]

What's wrong with thread necromancy?! Better keep all inquiries about the same subject in one thread... This thread, even if 4 years old, is, after all, about the Golden Horde!

This would lead to huge multipage threads that would be a chore to read through, plus you're replying to a post from 2006 and a member that has not been active for approx 14 months.

There are many, many threads about the Golden Horde, a good proportion of which are more recent than this one.

i don't see why it's an issue either but it seems to be frowned upon around here. there's some really great threads in archives but i found out a few months ago that bumping older threads is considered rude or something. still not sure why. it's not like there's a ton of new posts/threads that are being bumped by the older ones. i'm happy when i check this forum after a couple of days and there's one or two new posts to read.

btw, sorry for going OT.

It's known as forum etiquette. It is not just on this forum that it is frowned upon. Personally I have less of a problem with it, but I would draw the line at any thread over 12 months old. In such cases it is better to start anew with your own thread. It's hard to explain it, but older threads are seen as archives and it is undesirable to have more information appended to them. You can start your own thread and link to the older thread for reference if needed.

It's bad when the thread is not about a concise topic, or is truly outdated, but this thread is informative and about a specific topic, so indeed I do not see what would be the point of making a new thread just to ask a couple of questions about the horde.

We encourage you to make your own threads so that separate issues do not become confused. It is often the case that one person jumps into the thread of another person and "hijacks" that thread taking it away from it's original subject/purpose. If the thread is an older thread then it's necroposting and many of the opinions and/or information posted therein may now be outdated or disproved.

In more offtopic kind of forums it is sometimes a form of spam when people bump old threads, either as deliberate spam, or just in a "hey remember this cool thread" sort of way. But this is nothing like that.

Yes, this is certainly not spam as you raise valid points and contribute well to the thread - but as Knight of the Rose has said it is a better idea to make your own thread and a clean start.

This thread is now drifting well off topic (and after my contributions more so).

So what about the Mongols?