Originally Posted by
neil0502
Forums get ruined this way. Valuable contributors get tired of people treading up the same old stuff and stop contributing.
It's especially true if what's being dragged up is grease, degreaser, or chain lube threads -- the most over-analyzed subjects on bike tech forums.
So ... what you see as harmless, others see as potentially doing long-term harm.
My $0.02. YMMV.
Better to continue discussions than reinvent the wheel and create new threads requiring repeat posts of consolidated preserved information and clutter the system up with parrallel threads.
Most times, just because a thread is old doesn't make the content obsolete.
Most forums have longer threads covering chain lube favorites that degenerate into heated flame wars-so this is a topic that brings out the trolls.