I agree with every word. This needs to be the prevailing wisdom moving forward.

There doesn't need to be a warning as nobody need carry the mindset that they've 'accidentally' posted to begin with. The age of a thread is irrelevant if a user finds something in it that sparks them to make their own comment. I actually find it interesting on the odd occasion when an old thread gains a little bit of traction [or even if it is only one more post].

B5 is a fairly interesting show from the one episode I did watch, but then I fell into Gundam.
Even if said user has nothing useful to add, such as "this didn't work" or "did anyone figure this out"?

Those are actually relevant comments. In the first case, it may be that some changes have made the provided solution obsolete, so anyone who finds that thread in the future while looking for an answer to that particular problem will know to move along. In the second, it simply means that a solution was not provided and the user is bringing the matter up again in case someone has found one since, and bringing a previous thread back up instead of creating a new one has the clear benefit of showing what has been discussed regarding the matter.

You have chosen... poorly.

Third Age jokes aside, I have to say I'm a bit surprised with the passionate defence of necromancy around here. Other than Swedrami posting some news in various old release and coming soon threads, I'm not sure I've ever seen a thread necro around here that wasn't spam or some absolutely inane comment that contributed nothing and led to nothing.

I'm not saying it should be punishable by firing squad, we can have necros if that's what people want, whatever, but it feels so... pointless.

And anyway, you can start a new thread on this same subject. What's the point of trying to continue a discussion ended five years ago, with pages and pages of posts no one remembers, and catching up on would be the equivalent of tedious homework, only to reply to people who probably aren't even on the forum anyway? Just start a new thread FFS.

That's really what should not be done. If a thread on a topic already exists, way better to use it than just turn it into digital waste and then go through the topic all over again.

This is unrelated to a thread age, such comments happen even in recent threads ;)

Calling posts like that "news" is IMO way overly generous and inaccurate to what the content of those posts actually contain.

Actually, they contain nothing other than PR propaganda from the pubs/devs themselves trying to promote their own games.

Every time a pub/dev says something about their own game is not in any way "news;" it's just a sales pitch advertisement.

Those kind of PR propaganda necro posts are every bit as spammy & useless as any other kind of necro posts are.

And PR propaganda posts like that certainly should be included within - not excluded from - any policy changes that GOG might make to try and deal with the necro spam problem.

Lots of things are considered pointless by someone somewhere. Forum games, silly jokes in a post here and there....etc.
In the end, pointlessness(like taste in media) can be and often is subjective.

To some, reading/skimming old threads isn't tedious. It's more like forum archaeology as I see what the past hid away.
And making new threads is why we have so many cobwebbed threads that the forum shelves are close to busting.

One example of why making new threads isn't always the best idea:
yet another thread on DL speeds with few replies, mostly saying the same things as before

That would require a forum not put together on the budget of one fast food meal and a song.