Confused by ancient posts popping up on ‘top threads’ alert on email

Maremia

Sometimes I get drawn in by the subject, and then notice all the 'new' names. Or a Poster who has left the forum.
Then I belatedly check the date.

Yes, me too. I rarely check the date - I just read the thread. Sometimes seeing an old poster makes me realise it's an old thread, but not always.

Sometimes I get drawn in by the subject, and then notice all the 'new' names. Or a Poster who has left the forum.
Then I belatedly check the date.

The first thing I look at nowadays, is the date of a thread.

Why is it only when I don't preview that I make grammatical errors? Should read 'I have seen' not 'in'.

But surely sometimes the information in an old thread is relevant to what a poster is looking for now. In have seen new threads where someone comments that there are old threads that cover this. sometimes you can't win either way.
I do agree though Cossy that when it's a problem specific to the OP you do feel a bit of a twit having imparted your well-thought out advice only to find out she posted the problem 7 years ago!

It’s so blooming annoying and if the topic interests me off I go answering, only to find the original post is de ages old and then I feel such a twit!

Sometimes it's when someone has been searching threads and found something that they feel they can add something to. This resurrects the ancient thread and gets it up and running again and so you will see it on the 'Trending' box on the home screen.