platyhiker

I have the same theory as you, PurplePansies. Very often, when somebody replies to a thread that has been inactive for years, you will see that person has very posts on the forum, indicating they are brand new to the forum (and may not think to check dates). A recent example of this is the Fiskars Rotary Cutter thread - it had been inactive since 2011, and then a person with only 1 post revived the thread by posting an answer to the original question. There's no real in harm in this, but original poster is very unlikely to see the answer that the new member was trying to help. Sometimes, the question is still relevant to people in the current times, but sometimes the question and answer are specific to equipment that hasn't been sold for a long time.