# Is there a rule about responding to old posts here?

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**Category:** Site feedback\
**Created:** [November 19, 2024, 12:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-rule-about-responding-to-old-posts-here/336959 "2024-11-19T12:27:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![nobrowser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nobrowser/32/240031_2.png) [@nobrowser](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nobrowser)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 8:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-rule-about-responding-to-old-posts-here/336959/3 "2024-11-20T08:16:36Z")

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Well, on _some_ sites at least, if you do it you’ll be told something like “Don’t necropost”. 🙂 I think this happened to me on the F-Droid discourse.

To me it totally makes sense to keep adding to existing topics regardless of age.

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Ian

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