Bon Voyage dissatisfaction
morriganrant:
Quote from: crystalclear on 2008 March 25, 16:55:12
'necromancy' means talking with the dead or something like that...
It also means raising the dead and many other practices.
talysman:
Quote from: crystalclear on 2008 March 25, 16:55:12
'necromancy' means talking with the dead or something like that...
Quote from: morriganrant on 2008 March 25, 17:07:46
It also means raising the dead and many other practices.
Literally, it means divination by means of the dead (séance, ouija board,) but S&S stories of the '20s and '30s turned it into "raising the dead". There's also a little side-trip where some people thought the word was derived from the Latin word for "black", thus spawning the term "The Black Arts" or "Dark Arts", which pretty much covers anything unwholesome, especially magic that uses parts of dead people (like the hand of glory.)
But if anyone these days has heard the word, they think of the S&S definition, usually. And that's what's used on loads of forums. I'll admit I haven't seen it on the Sims BBS, which might be a better indication of how many people have heard the term... but all the boards I usually frequent not only talk about thread necromancy, but usually respond to it with a Mr. Mackay-like "Necromancy is bad, m'kay?"
bowrain:
Quote from: talysman on 2008 March 25, 17:22:46
But if anyone these days has heard the word, they think of the S&S definition, usually. And that's what's used on loads of forums. I'll admit I haven't seen it on the Sims BBS, which might be a better indication of how many people have heard the term... but all the boards I usually frequent not only talk about thread necromancy, but usually respond to it with a Mr. Mackay-like "Necromancy is bad, m'kay?"
Weird... I'm a member of various boards (none of them is a Sims board, this is the only Sims-related board I go) and I never heard that term being used :(
kuronue:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=necromancy
second definition.
cwykes:
If you have more to say on an old topic, it makes sense to continue the old thread for two reasons:-
1. All the info about the topic stays in one place rather than being spread all over the board
2. Anyone who was interested in the subject first time round has tools to see there's something new there - "notify" (if it works) and "show new replies to your posts".
People who see the necromancy warning and still post without a good reason are just annoying. If you want to get draconian, can you fix it so that people with less than X posts, physically CAN'T re-open a closed thread?
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