Proper way to handle people raising dead threads?

Someone just 'bumped' a thread from 2008
Re: Problem providing download link for BLOB data in apex report
What is the polite way to handle this?
thanks
MK

Yep, as jgarry points out, the lifetime of a thread is not fixed, and the mods have to look at each one in context.
As an example, yesterday, someone dragged up an old(ish) thread that already had answers marked as correct and helpful (and I could see they were from experts and they were correct answers). This new member had added their answer to it, which was just repeating answers that had already been given and added nothing new to the thread. The nature of the question and the answers given meant that there really was nothing new that I could envisage being added to the discussion, and so I put a standard message about not reviving old threads on there, and locked it.
In other examples, we have people dragging up old threads from years ago, just to ask the OP how they solved their problem.... an OP who quite clearly in a lot of cases is no longer active on the forums and isn't likely to answer them. If the person dragging up the thread has an issue, they should start their own question, referencing that old thread if they need, but not drag it back out of history.
The other problem is when people drag up an old thread to provide an answer, often saying that the previous answers are not good and that it can be done "this way...", providing some method of resolving the issue that uses new features of the database.... new features that weren't around when the question was originally asked e.g. using LISTAGG function of 11g to solve an issue that was asked around the time of 9i when sys_connect_by_path had to be used. Posting such answers on old threads help nobody, as there are plenty of recent threads that already have examples of that new functionality being used to answer similar questions. In these cases, I suspect that the person is just seeing a question that is 'unanswered' and thinking they can get some points for themselves, and perhaps haven't realised just how old the thread is, or that the OP is no longer around.
Of course, there are those discussions which are open-ended, and can be revived after some time if people have new and relevant information to add. Those sorts of discussions I wouldn't necessarily consider locking.
There are no hard and fast rules for it, the moderators have to use discerned judgement.

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