Necroposting
Updated: 09/25/2024 by Computer Hope
Any post or comment made on a forum thread that's very old, e.g., a thread with the last comment being several months old. This type of posting is often done by those who may have stumbled across a thread using search, without realizing no one is actively talking in the thread. Necroposting is looked down upon among the forum community because it is bad forum etiquette to reply to a discussion that already ended.
Note
Posting on old posts to get them to the top of the most recent post is called bumping.