So I mentioned this once.
Another forum I'm a member of has a policy that you shouldn't post in a thread more than two or three months old. Instead start a new one and as an option if you want you can link to the old thread.
I like that idea. I don't like it when someone newish starts a thread and three or four people tell them it already exists as if they shouldn't have started the new thread. Especially when the thread is years old and pages upon pages of posts. Like car names, or owner's ages, things like that, I think a new one is okay every so often to give new members a chance to chime in.
ps. Hell know the kids shouldn't have gotten the car for homecoming five years ago.