old threads?

Well....not a question, maybe, but I see too many old old old community posts.  Like 2, 6, 9 years old.  Doesnt help when they've already moved on years ago and won't reply cus well, it's old old old.  

I know, it took me a while to get used to a forum that encourages perennial conversation rather than hiding everything away once it's "done".  But I've come to like it a lot.  

We've tried lots of different ways and found this one works best for us.  It would take me a couple of hours to list all the things, but my sheep are hungry.

But each post has a date on it.  Is this not working?

The threads on the forum are perennial so when someone searches google or another search engine, they occasionally post to that thread and we get a new member.

I don't know really, though it seems the community forum gets a lot of action from these searches.

I know that is how I found the forum though I have no idea what post it was I found.  I know it was to ID a plant.

I remember saying to myself "This is my kind of place" and here I am six years later.

Fae, just curious, how did you find the forum?

I love it when old posts surface.  They are sometimes relevant to exactly what I'm doing, and when they aren't, they seem to be relevant to someone that took the time to comment.  If you stay on a forum, any forum, long enough, you may find that the same questions come up over and over again.  Why not take advantage of the advice someone gave 7, 8, 9 years ago?  I'm not certain that things dealing with growing food or building soil have changed a tremendous amount over that number years.  In some cases, reading what people thought about homesteading subjects 100 years ago is far more helpful than many of the things you read today.  That's why I'm in the process of building a chicken coop based on a book written in the 1920's :)

So many times I am about to write a post about something, then I do a quick search for the topic here on Permies, and I find a thread from waaaaaaaay back that has already opened the discussion that has been going on in my mind. I always like being able to "answer" someone rather than simply start a new discussion, because I like being part of the conversation and don't want to just talk to myself. Sure, perhaps the OP hasn't logged on to Permies for 10 years now--but the conversation can still go on and on with those of us here now!

Yep, I like those old classic informative threads! As long as you aren't expecting the OP to answer a question like "How did that work out for you?". I like it when new participants just carry the discussion forward with a new question, comment or info.

I put my best considered experience into a couple of posts way back when, and I hope they remain searchable and useful to people as time goes by. Just like old blogs or recipe sites, that when I search google sometimes have exactly the info or recipe I'm searching for.