It's not just you, it is annoying. A lot of people don't look at the dates of threads before they start responding. It is annoying when for example someone makes a thread in EoEO asking for advice with something, and someone drags their problem back up after the thread (and the problem) have been dead for 8 months, and then a ton of other people start responding as well because they think the thread is about something that's relevant currently.