Ahhhh, DON’T REPLY TO VERY VERY OLD THREADS unless you have a really really BIG ISSUE about it that could qualify to be enough reason to be AWAKEN again. Even some S2PID OLD MEMBERS (quoted by others) knows this and avoids this kind of annoyance. Somebody will disagree again with this issue, but I would like to clarify again, DON’T REPLY UNLESS YOU HAVE SOME DEVELOPMENT ABOUT IT THAT WOULD OR COULD INTEREST THE COMMUNITY.
Balls to this. If someone wants to open a thread with new information regarding the parent subject or a sub-subject within that thread, let them. If it is just "lol", then I can understand it being annoying. But for updated information, questions that remain unanswered previously in the thread, or similar even if they are not OMFGWTFBBQ going to change the face of the earth... need to be tolerated.

We can't expect each and never new person to AO to follow a contradiction of rules. "Search N00B!!!!11. Oh, and when you find the post that has something of what you need.. DUN reply to it asking for more information!!! start a completely new thread that requires you linking from the older thread and reexplaining things rather than continuing where others left off".

Pftt. I never understood why it was such an annoyance that deserved people getting negs. Don't like old threads? That's fine, and that's your choice. Don't read them. Want to see what new information or question may have been brought to light that someone needs help on? Read it. But don't neg someone just because they don't want to start a brand new thread for a subject that already exists in a thread elsewhere.