We can get exercised about all kinds of things in forums, if we choose to.
Zombie posts, posts in the wrong categories, threadjacking, titles that don’t tell you what’s in the post, and on and on.
I figure that if that’s all I have to complain about at the time, then my life is really pretty good at that point.
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I think it’s okay to reply to old posts. I will say that often I open a post without looking at anything other than the post topic, and think I won’t be able to really contribute anything to the post when it’s an old post. Will the original poster still be interested in it or monitoring it? But I still look at such posts since there could be something in there that can tell me a thing or two about modeling.
I’ve replied to old posts because they show up as unread in my feed. Since this is a new system, ALL the old posts are “unread”. So I read them, not realizing they’re old and reply to some that I felt I needed to comment on. Some of my new replies spark up the conversation again, others just die away with the post again. I tend to look at the age of the post now.
There goes @fxsti03-42, resurrecting an 18-day old thread…
In all seriousness, I’ve resurrected some threads and laughed when others have. Like most on here, I see no issue with resurrecting an old thread that has value (e.g. modeling techniques, materials, etc.), especially if the purpose is to add to the knowledge base or update opinions/etc. Recently I did some searching to figure out if any particular Apoxie product (sculpt, clay, fixit, etc.) was a better choice for me. The most recent threads were quite old, so I started a new one. Another option is to start a new thread, but paste a link to the old thread in your first post so people can go back and read if they want. Might make things cleaner (sometimes an old thread is still “new” to me and has 9 years of posts to catch up on). Just MHO.