A fork of Rural Dictionary
On a message board, posting something irrelevent on a really old topic to bring it to the top of the list topics. name comes from the fact that you are bringing it back from the dead, thus Necro. a practice common among n00blars.
n00b: I think necroposting is funny. me: ::bitchslaps::
The act of posting something highly irrelevant to a forum thread that has not been posted to in months, even years, to bring it back from the dead.
9/23/2014: I would have to say that TF2 is one of the best games ever made. *insert 100 posts here, last one 9/24/2014* 9/23/2017: lol This is an example of necroposting
Posting to something on the internet for the first time in quite a few months or years. Usually n00bs do this, but sometimes a pro will do it to make people laugh. This definition is a necropost.
Date: June 01, 1995 Comment: *long post about how computers will fit in your hand in 50 years* Date: Feb 17, 2010 Comment: tl;dr Sent from my iPhone Date: December 31, 2011 Comment: Stupid necroposting Applen00b Sent from Internet Explorer Date: January 01, 2012 Comment: Stupid hypocritic necroposting Windowsn00b Sent with my Ubuntu laptop Date: March 10, 2098 Comment: I'm glad they banned proprietary software Sent from my Debian smartglasses Date: May 02, 2317 Comment: Look what I found in the archives! this is so funny loool Sent from a Borg implant in my brain Date: January 01, 10000 Comment: Hi, I'm the Doctor! Sent from my TARDIS Date: January 01, 1500 Comment: im a hacker
A person posting in a really old topic. Such as a topic that is a year old. They look for old post and try to start them up again. Most necroposting is caused by the primitive race known as the n00b
TehSL1(01/3/04)Yeah Hl2 will be good n00b(03/14/05)no way hl2 is teh suxorz Kagami(03/14/05)stop nao necroposter!!
The act of posting in a forum thread that is too old to matter any more, or has served it's purpose. Usually by new, inexperienced members of the board. A common trait of someone necroposting is not to only bring one old thread back from the last page before deletion, but to fill up the entire first page with threads that only they seem to think have relevance to anything.
Date: 15th June 07 Comment: blah blah blah Date: 2nd November 07 Comment: I totally agree! Date: 2nd November 07 Comment: Quit necroposting.
In the context of the forums, the rootword of "necropost," which is "post," is most accurately defined as "a message published on a website." The prefix of the word, "necro-" most nearly means "dead." As such, the appropriate definition for a "necropost" (which can function as both a noun and a verb) would be "(v) the act of publishing a message on a website in a dead topic" or "(n) a message published on a website in a dead topic."
"dude... you just totally necroposted" "lol what?" "YOU POSTED IN A TOPIC FROM LIKE, 4 MONTHS AGO, LOLOLOLOL!"