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[quote=Anonymous]I see this all the time.  There's a thread that's 4-5 years old in which someone asked a question that was hotly debated.  No one posts for years.  Then suddenly someone posts with some random response dredging it all up again.  People start posting with answers that are totally pointless because the OP has moved on with life.  It usually seems like the person who suddenly posted it is either a sh*t-stirrer generally, or is someone who has an axe to grind about a particular issue and found the thread through a google search on their axe-grinding topic.  
It really is exhausting and brings down the quality of the discourse on this site.  Is there any reason why you don't just lock a thread that has had no new posts in over a year?  If someone wants to make a follow-up post, they can always link the original thread for reference, but then no one is misled into thinking that the original question is still a live issue, and people don't have to re-read many pages worth of posts the date back to the Obama administration before responding.  
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