to wonder wtf it is with all this

[2shoes]

dragging up old threads

God knows. It's driving me nuts.

I did respond on one.

please don't pelt me with rotten fruit.

i keep thinking I have missed a massive thread...........

It's worse when you read through the fecker from start to finish and then realsie it's old.

I've stopped pointing it out since someone went postal on me for doing so.

Of course, for the purposes of irony, I shall be resurrecting this thread in two years' time.

why though
are people that bored

Were they interesting threads?

don't know. i fell asleep

do you think they are by needy attention seeking people who just wanna be loved?

BTW can you check out my thread. please

The thing is, sometimes I see a thread, have a look then comment and I have no idea that it is a really old post until someone points it out. I never check the dates. I suppose it is the fault of whoever dragged up the old thread in the first place, and I don't really understand why they do that.

I know, it's really bloody annoying when you trawl through 200 odd posts only to realise the thread is years old.

I wondered what the new craze was too.

Well it may be that the resurrectors have been stung by 'if you do a search there are HUNDREDS of threads on this subject' when starting a thread of their own! Just a thought.

YABalittlebitU. I suspect like hocuspontas that it's new people (yes, I made this mistake when I first started using mumsnet!) who are looking for specific topics, often because they've been told to by old hands. They then post on ancient threads, which bumps them to the top.

The dates of threads are flipping tiny, and even for non-novices it can take a while to notice that the OP date was 2002 or whatever.

IMHO the worst aspect of Mumsnet is the impossibility of organising threads by date of OP, rather than latest thread. That would sort everything in a jiffy.