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Since I feel responsible for this, I do want to point out that I used the term sarcastically.

What I said was:

Dragging a horse out for a fresh beating - which we really don’t mind, otherwise - doesn’t show off the MMO culture’s work unless you’ll at the very least acknowledge that it’s already dead. Beating the horse to death was our work.

I suppose some others have commented here or there that they're sick of beating dead horses, re: topics that have been around the block a time or two already... but there have always been people saying that.

Do they ever even have blogs?

Prior to that in the same post, I wrote:

The way I see it, we have these conversations pop-up all the time. A flurry of blog posts and comment threads follow as they expand into the void, losing focus and cohesion, and then they die…

Resurrection is a sacred ritual which involves gathering or replacing all the scattered and lifeless remains, stitching them back together into a single abomination, and then zapping the reassembled remains with science’s most recent sin (previously biology, chemistry, electricity, radiation, genetic-engineering; currently stem-cells).

Bringing topics back from the dead is exactly like that.

I wasn't calling for silence, but lamenting the lack of the above ritual.

No one has ever done the above quite as well as Abalieno used to do pretty much all the time, and those who do gather-up a summary don't do it nearly as often as Abalieno used to do. It's a load of work.

And I was being facetious in criticizing massively for not doing it, though I am sincere about enjoying it when it is done.

I'm definitely not saying that Dr. Frankenstein's work should be abandoned.

Those villagers with the pitchforks and torches might, but that's what they say about everything.