there's still no harm in people posting in threads that are old. It's not like people can't look at the date of the posts if they need to know when the discussion started. It's also kinda cool to look back on old threads as time progresses. For example i at another board i used to be a part of we had a lot of fun looking through threads about older games as they debuted. Really makes you broaden your perspective on the industry as a whole when you read how revolutionary you thought the graphics for Mario Kart 64 were.