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Why are so many old threads being revived?

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Oldnproud Mon 22-Nov-21 17:47:18

What's going on, Gransnet.

Who's reviving all these old threads, and why?

Take the latest, Coronavirus spring clean. It is nearly two years old. Why would anyone go to the trouble of either trawling back through hundreds of old threads on the relevant forum to find it, or put the right key words into the search facility to find it? That seems particularly unlikely for that particular thread - it's not as if what was added had anything to do with spring cleaning, after all!

I can understand the occasional thread being revived, because sometimes a topic stays in the memory, and someone might want to go back and add new info or an update to it, but that isn't what is happening in in most recent thread revivals.

It seems very strange.

Grandmabatty Mon 22-Nov-21 18:21:26

I think scammers pick these threads to post nonsense on. I've reported quite a number over the last few weeks.