Telika: After decades on the internet, I still do NOT understand the problem that people have with "necroing" old threads instead of starting one with the, vaguely rephrased, same title and OP. I just "learnt" that people can't stand it. Yet again, I also learnt that people are dumb.
And now, locking old threads just to MAKE SURE ? Yeah, if it helps you sleep at night why not. Whatever.
It was confusing as heck to me when I came to GOG, how continuing an old thread about certain subject was considered a definite no-no. Reason being that on another forum where I had spent time, it was the total opposite: the biggest mistake you could make there was to open a new thread about a subject that already existed, even years before. I think doing it repeatedly could even get you banned there. Before opening a new thread, you were always supposed to search the forum first if there was an old discussion about the subject, and continue that one.
I agree though that replying to someone's old message may be quite odd, unless it is still very relevant to the original question. But continuing an old thread with new information about the subject... I'd consider it even preferable to opening a new thread because then you have all the needed information in that one thread.
Then again, no biggie either way, just interesting how different the policies can be on different forums.