Hey friends,
I totally get why you don't close old threads.
Even when they are years old and the OP is long gone, new people who google that question would benefit from new answers.

Albeit I have recently found that many threads that have been abandoned months or even years ago get new posts that are unnecessary, i.e. answering a personal question OP was asking when he didn't use the forum for years.

I think the best solution to this would be having a picture appear on old threads that says "Warning: The last post in this thread is x months/years old, keep that in mind before you answer".

 

The search works fine for me here.
Old threads are not necessarily old questions, even if the op is not logging in, the answers benefit other people.

 

For me the only problem that is no biggie anyway: after someone revives an old thread several people doesn't know or remember it's an old one and answer to the OP and stuff like that.
Because they come from Asex's feed on AZ, or notifications in case they posted when it was created...
Happens to the best of us lol

The idea of a reminder "thread is old"-like sounds good though. I can live without but it'd be nice.

 

Here's one for the topic then. A lot of the times when you see very old threads get bumped like this; it's almost always old user account with no activity, or maybe one post or two. So either mass registered years ago or cracked/shared online. Always spam. User never expires?

 

No, what makes you think so? You can absolutely register, ask a question or two and never appear again.

 

That's exacly what a hacked account would say.

Seriously though, not long go there was a thread that got revived by an old user who posted our dear "*spam*" spam (usualy posted by brand new users). Pretty isolated case though.

For most cases i think Xupito is on point, people don't realize the thread is old, then it shows up on az and the ball keeps rolling.

I don't think it should be signaled, thread nechromancy is a great oportunity to throw in some meems.

 

Of course, but I wouldn't remember the credentials to a random username "clone82378" on a forum I posted to once 6 years ago. They probably are that UAD spam anyway, it's just odd looking.

 

How old is this post? Are we reheating it?