Really really old discussions

I have seen those and if the person who started it is still active, I will respond, but most of the time they aren't. When a discussion is 3 yrs old and they only have like 100-1000 on their number, I'll just pass it by - sure, I might get it active again, but not really with the person who started it.

Hi savak, I do that most of the time. I like to know what other discussions have been there on mylot about the same or similar topic. I have also takemn part in some of them.In fact I do it often, saves me the trouble of browsing through so many pages of new discussions.I have found most of these discussions interesting ...All the best and have a great weekend

If I see a discussion anywhere that I like, I do respond to it. It is just how I am. I have responded to some that say they are four years old. It was very interesting to me that this spring several people were hitting some of my older ones. I know how it started, with just one person, but once it came back up to the surface others kept it there. That was nice, and also strange for me, because I have changed a lot over the years. I remember posting a post about NOT accepting newbies, or always checking profiles, now I just accept people, and if they disappoint me, then I delete them. Things change. I think all of my "no reponses" got taken care of in an exchange early on with some other friends. As I have been here longer even my bad discussions get responses.Thanks to my friends. I also try never to leave a friend unresponded, as the discussion does not earn until it has its first response.

I respond to anything and everything if it catches my attention and I often respond to a discussion from that list. When they are old discussions the user is usually thrilled to see it moving again and once it becomes active again and gets visible in the list, it could receive many more responses. Some months back I responded on a very old one and this caused the user to return and become active again! p.s. this is tagged now and you have a list on the right too

I have done that and have answered discussions which are two years old,I expect that person gets a real surprise getting a comment so long after the discussion has waited so long.

I usually do that and oftentimes I ran into a three to four year old discussions. I put a response in that discussion and I do note the time when it was started in my response. I start my response like "Since this discussion was started four years ago.. so on and so forth". This is my way to encourage people to keep an interesting "old" discussion alive. One time I ran into an old discussion in the no responses tab...

hi savak03 I do that too once in a while and have had several that were really so interesting but did wonder after three years if any of the users were still here. Then again I unfortunately commented on one where the user was very much here and had a caustic tongue, now sarcasm I can deal with as one of our dear users is great with it, but this was just plain meanness. I did something I seldom do, I hit the exclamation mark and reported this person's mean response. I have revived several with users now gone whom I hoped might one day return here, and one who was from Scotland and whom I really enjoyed so much.

Yes I do that many times in fact when I am strapped for discussion I normally go to a discussion and look for similar posts because it usually means that I should be able to answer such discussion as well.I dont think I have met a three year old discussion but I have met discussions that were two years old

I also do that responding to similar discussions at the right side of the screen, even it they are 5 years old discussions. It doesn't matter how old it is as long as they interest me. At first I was hesitant because answering to old discussions seems to be walking to an empty room. Everyone had participated and there is no one there anymore. But based on feedback by the veterans here about responding to old discussions, I learned that no discussion would be too old to participate. And so I started participating to old discussions. What is nice is some of the discussion starters still comment back to their responses. To me that is so cool!