Quote Originally Posted by nun2sharp View Post
It does seem shameful to me that on the one hand we encourage people to search threads, refer to the wiki and so on, then when they resurrect a dead thread someone will leave a discouraging remark about it being years old.
I agree with this. Also, if there's someone who wants to talk about the topic, then it's not really a dead topic anymore. If you close down old threads or frown upon people posting in them, the person would need to start a new thread to have their questions answered. Why have a bunch of threads on the same topic?