Two thoughts for this discussion;
1) There is a local newspaper that used to use the advertising line - "If you haven't read it it is still news" or there is something that can be learned from even yesterdays newspaper. As said about there are almost half a million posts here. How long would it take to read everyone if you did nothing else for 10 hours a day? So the member may have been on the forum for years and never have come across an old thread. I do agree that when coming across a tread try to read all posts before adding additional comments.

2) The search features of this forum is very good, but, like a looking up a word in a dictionary if you don't know how it is spelled it is not that easy to look up. that same if true of the search feature of any product. How many of you knew what fell or seeking was when you joined the forum. I wonder how many new member think that horsehair refers to the facial hair worn by many members.