I don't know where to ask this so forgive me for violating any reg's.

How do the old posts, some over 10yrs. old, get revived to the top of the forum page? Do people somehow just stumble on them? I start reading and may become confused by some replies. I go check the date thread posted and 'waaaaah'.

Don't get me wrong... I like learning everything I can. But it can be somewhat annoying at times. (Reading replies to someone who asked something and was never heard from again).

Anyway sorry for posting if in the wrong place.

 

Yes. Maybe the poster Googled something and got a thread from long ago. Once a new post is uploaded.... Presto! Bumped to the top.

 

Usually it's a mobile user who finds it with a Google search (as mentioned) or is just browsing specific forums. Original post date and OP's location don't show up. After their post others reply after having found it with the new posts search button. I belong to other forums that warn you the thread is 500 years old when you hit reply and asks if you still want to.

All of that said, I've learned things from resurrected necrophilia threads.

 

Not just this forum but in most every forum I've been on, somehow it's almost always a new member that brings a dead thread back.

Here, most of the old threads have been locked in a few sections but not all of them, to keep reviving old ones down. By old, I'm talking about 3+ years.

But I agree, posting an answer in one that's years old, doesn't make a lot of sense to me.