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Seems like a strange reward to me.
Very good point. I'll remove it from the list.
I think it mostly depends on how you bump an old/inactive thread. If you post something insightful and useful to an old thread, the I guess it might be worthy, but now, if you derail a thread simply because of spam, then we have a problem.
That would be "archaeologist" and not derailment.
(02-12-2017, 11:56 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: [ -> ]That would be "archaeologist" and not derailment.

Exactly.
(02-12-2017, 11:56 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: [ -> ]That would be "archaeologist" and not derailment.

I just looked up the definition on Urban dictionary and yes, you are right.

Man, and here I though that "derailing a thread" was a synonimous of "bumping a thread", silly me.
Think of it as "derailing a train". It had an intended course and it isn't on it anymore.