Final Death of Necroposting

It's been an infractionable action since day 1, on this and almost every forum in existence. There are legitimate reasons why threads need to stay dead past a certain point.

Posting new threads isn't "clogging up" anything. That's what the built in cut off days filter is for - so the old threads don't clog up the forum for anyone who doesn't explicitly want to see them. There's no need to recycle the same thread over and over and over to add one retarded lolcat to it every six weeks, which is about what you're wanting. The simple truth is the majority of time if a thread hasn't been touched in a week it's dead and there's little to nothing that will ever be contributed to it again. I've tripled the time to make that assumption and we've got work-arounds and exemptions to cover the exceptions.

The old threads still take up bandwidth/memory/space/whatever dont they? Why make someone make a new thread which just adds to this when one already exits?

I've never understood why it is "bad" to post in an "old" thread. If I was running a board I'd encourage people to post in old existing threads rather than start a new one.

If you are going to make them inaccessible to post in you may as well just have them deleted...