I love watching that little surge of power peeps get when they spot someone committing the crime of posting to an older topic, just because (a.) it was new to them; and (b.) they found it interesting.
And yet, I can't help finding it ironic that it's considered standard procedure to criticize someone who continues—even 10 years later—a discussion involving a classic, vintage stuff. Is this our way of saying that keebs like these shouldn't be considered timeless? And saying that KB enthusiasts who didn't happen to be there when a thread was started (like, maybe, they were still too young to type?) should be inhibited from joining in about certain aspects of them?
I know, someone's going to reply now and say, "Hey, lighten up—the 'necro' thing's just a joke." And maybe it is a joke. But noobs, or people new to GH, don't necessarily know that... All they know is that someone's giving them a hard time for expressing interest in something.
And if it's not just a joke, and it's that offensive when someone posts to an older topic, let's ask the admins to make threads read-only after a certain amount of time. That seems dumb, though, considering how specialized the discussions can be here about stuff that's so specialized to begin with.