Randomly, someone, most likely a newbie, will post in a thread that has been dead for an extended amount of time. As we all know, this is a thread revival and is usually closed right away, if the time between the last two posts is significant.

Now, I can understand somebody reviving something from the first page. It's still up there, and if you're not paying attention to the dates, it's easy to think that it's still somewhat active.

But I ask you, when someone revives a thread that's over half a year old (I just actually saw one that hadn't been updated for ten months) how do they manage it?

Do newbies know that this sort of behaviour is not looked well upon, but use their excuse of newbness to revive it anyways? Or do they simply not know what they're doing? I don't know about you, but I don't view threads that are farther than half way down the page (unless it's GC where you get a lot of traffic.) I barely ever touch the second page.

Threads that pop up a year later have to have been revived from at least the third page. This brings me to the conclusion that those who are responsible for thread revivals are either looking for these threads, or just have a complete lack of common sense.

What do you think?