This definitely needed to be dredged up again.
You do realize that not everyone checks the forums all day everyday, and that when you click on a thread it takes you to your earliest unread post, right?
So people reading through what they’ve missed so far might have input on something somebody said. It’s not unreasonable.
Yes, let’s just revive all the crap that has been resolved days ago, just because some people can’t first read through a thread and then post. This kind of redundancy is the reason why there are so many new pages every day in the first place.