Runes of Magic US / AU

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Lets not promote necrophilia here.

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Quoted from "Merriam-Webster"

obsession with and usually erotic interest in or stimulation by corpses

Quoted from "wolfowl77;473754"

He was most likely referring to the practice of "necroing" a thread, i.e. posting in a thread that hasn't seen the light of day in months or, in some cases, over a year. GM's and FM's routinely close such threads because most of the time their usefulness has passed.

Pretty sure the necrophilia line was intended as a joke

Quoted from "vfwiffo;473760"

Bumping is very different from necroing and yeah, it is always worth it to click on threads closed by Mr K. Never know what kind of new take on the thread deadness will pop up.

Quoted from "wolfowl77;473761"

You managed a large forum, congrats. But that wasn't this one.

Communities will often create a lingo all their own, usually by accident, that helps distinguish those in the "know" from those who are not. For instance, try describing what a "tank" is to someone who's never played or heard of a MMO. Because you've never heard of it or seen it's use in such a fashion doesn't mean it isn't used that way familiarly by the community.

That's not to call into question your intelligence, btw, just explaining my position here, your response came across as a bit defensive when I intended no offense.

But, all discussion aside, while I recognize that the FM/GM was most likely joking using a term like necrophilia I think is in poor taste. But there's very little about the internet that isn't in poor taste these days.

Hell, being polite to someone online is something of an oddity now

Quoted from "LadyMacV;473764"

While showing love to a dead thread might not be quite the same thing as showing it to a corpse... maybe in Kalvan's mind, they're exactly the same thing.

Quoted from "vfwiffo;473804"

Hey, if it is in Urban Dictionary, it must be true.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph…d%20necrophilia



And then there are assorted images to be found by googling, many of which I shall not post due to their questionable tastes:



BTW, I fully intend, several months from now, when this thread is long since forgotten, to come back and necro it.

Quoted from "TheMann64;473963"

Words have different meanings in different contexts. I knew what "Necrophilia" meant before you defined it here. However, when I read "let's not promote Necrophilia", in the context it was expressed in, I took it to mean a love of dead posts, not of dead bodies.

So the question isn't where was the FM's mind... the question is, where was yours

In all seriousness, now that you've made the connection, I'll probly cringe if makes the comment again. But until I read this post, I didn't see any harm in him posting a word that, to most frequenters on this forum, looked like a funny word the FM made up in relation to necro threads.

Quoted from "mrmisterwaa;474046"

OP,

As rubyeyessaid, I have a feeling it was intended as a joke, if you haven't played D2, then you wouldn't understand the reference.