I have spoken to Nathan about it. I have absolutely no problem with ANYONE digging into an old topic and breathing new life into it, as he did for a topic on Lee Asher's upcoming Jerry's Nuggets sale.
But when you're doing things like digging into STISO posts that have had no activity in a month and are about to be closed, what's the point? I also got on his case about tossing comments into someone's sale post when he's got no intention of buying or selling anything involved - this goes against forum rules.
A good percentage of his posts didn't add much to the conversation - he wisecracked about people being "afraid" of a KS deck being made that's closing later this week with little hope of success, but the last thing anyone had said about it was over three weeks prior, when the posts he was commenting on might have actually had any relevance. It's no different than if he wrote an op-ed piece in today's paper about what a terrible job Richard Nixon is doing as president - it's pointless and moot.
Once in a while, we all have come across topics where all we wanted to say was a simple "hey, I like this" or something a bit lacking in substance beyond simple chit-chat. That's fine, if you're posting about something that's current and that people are still talking about, and if you don't make a habit out of it. But he's commenting at a rapid-fire pace on nearly every topic that hasn't had new activity for weeks like they were written an hour ago. I don't even do this, and I've got (or so I've heard) people at UC complaining that I'm a spammer here simply because I have over 5,000 posts, regardless of the content in them.
Nathan, I have nothing personal against you, but you actually CAN simply read a post, absorb the information within and NOT COMMENT every now and then. Serious posts with current and relevance information are always welcome, but if you can't think of anything that rises above the level of chit-chat on an old and inactive topic, just read it, digest the contents and move on. I know you've been on a vacation, but that doesn't make the chit-chat posts more relevant to anyone but you.
If you want to pursue this further, then I'll split the topic and move these posts to the LOLAQ, but if not, then let's please stick to the topic, or just let sleeping dogs lie.
Regardless if Nathan brings up old topics does it mean someone has to reply to almost all of them leaving us with the same information we had when we originally clicked the post. No? Does this person still do it? Ya. Thus there is little to no difference in nathan or said person replying to nathan.
If the bulk of his posts are just a half-step above being spam, it does get annoying, and I'm not the only member who thinks so. Most of Nathan's comments I've simply left alone, but it was becoming ridiculous just how many of these outdated topics he was commenting on with little or nothing of substance to add beyond "I like this" or similar. And commenting on a sales post made by someone seeking to sell a lightly-damaged box of White Monarchs to a fellow Singaporean that's been inactive for over a month when he's not even close to being a potential customer and wants to say hi is just plain ridiculous, in addition to being against STISO rules. The blasted topic would have been locked already if I had swept the forum a day earlier! That's what PMs and the Introduce Yourself forum were invented for.
