Huh... There was no need to bring this thread afloat after more than a year of inactivity, in my opinion. If you felt like discussing the right for people to defend themselves, then you could have just opened a new thread, instead posting here again, but whatever.
You know I really don't get it, you create a new thread with a topic to discuss something that's been already discussed on the forum before, someone comes from nowhere and tackles you for spamming the forum, and when you decide not to create a new thread on the same topic and decide to say something on the topic because you feel you've got something to contribute to the topic, you're also slammed for waking up and old thread (as you politely put it) I mean, is this really normal here?
It can be subjective. But you are right if we consider we are supposed to raise threads and check them in the case they already exist, so we don't cause annoyance on others. So I stand corrected. In other forums I have participated in, people do not like neither of both: spamming nor Necro bumping discussions which could be considered to be old enough to be irrelevant.
In this case I guess I may have over-reacted a bit, yes. I formally apologize.
Wow, I have to say that I appreciate you recognizing that, and also your willingness to listen to what other people have to say (especially people of the lower rank) is much appreciated. This is the kind of open-mindedness and civility that I think is important to cultivate in online discussions, especially in online communities such as this, so thank you for setting such a great example. It's really wonderful to see someone willing to admit they may have made a mistake and learn from it, and I hope that others can follow your lead.