Holy precipitation Batman! It seems like someone hasn't read the rules of the forum.
To not have to rehash old questions people are encouraged to do a thoroughly search and if there are still questions to post in a relevant thread. In that way old relevant threads are brought up again.
In the subsilver2 theme at least it's impossible to see if a thread is old or new when someone have posted on it recently, but as the information we are discussing often has been known for a century, most of the time it doesn't matter if a thread is a week old or ten years.
I agree, some information is best fresh, as discussing movements of the gold price or legalities. But what to do when you have problem with dropping the gold or eliminating contamination of your pure gold then an old thread is as fresh as a new one.
Looking at the dates of posts in this thread you can see that it's been popping up once a year or two, that is how it should be because this is one of the good threads.
Anyhow, I recommend you use the
icon to take you to the first unread post in a thread. It will be the first one if it's an old thread you haven't read yet, but after that it will be any new posts made.
In most other forums it is frowned upon posting in old threads (it's called necroposting), but this forum isn't like other ones so we make up our own rules.
I hope you see the wisdom in our ways, and if not, no one is forcing you to read old threads, just back off and do something else.
Göran (who has read every post on this forum and forgotten most of them
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