I'd like to see a ban on resurrecting any threads over a year old, for any reason. I hate the "no top posting!" mania some anal folks have that dates back to when DOS operating systems still roamed the earth. If a person finds an interesting topic in search, then they can cut and paste and quote an item from it and start a new discussion, but start a new thread. It's annoying to see a new post and think there's fresh content, when the first post on the thread is from years ago, and the thread is full of links that no longer work and red x's where photos used to be.
It befuddles me why people get so angry and take so seriously the bumping of older threads on internet messageboards. People get real worked up about it, don't they?
I don't understand either, I read Smiley Smile for pleasure, and don't get worked up about the content.