Thank you for your answer.
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Well, call me Blondie D, because the same thing has happened to me a few times over the years of AnswerBag and AnswerMug; I’ve stumbled upon a few questions that I wanted to answer, opened them up only to be surprised to learn that I was the person who posted them, lol.
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I suppose that different people have their own reasons for preferring to revive older posts rather than starting a new post on the same topic or similar topics, I can only cite my own reasons. Number one is the reviving itself, it is a trip down memory lane, and secondly, it gives homage to the original poster. I think that merely glomming onto another member’s question and reposting a facsimile of it smacks of copying or plagiarizing another’s work and ideas. Thirdly, sometimes there are people who haven’t ever seen the older posts, so reviving them exposes them to new people and to more people. Fourth reason, the meaningfulness and the intent of certain posts are best served by having been submitted by their original authors as opposed to me submitting them anew. Next, reviving an old question also revives existing answers to it and existing comments to it. Merely posting a new question about it dismisses those who answered previously and are no longer active or no longer members. I find many questions, answers and comments quite interesting, funny, thought- provoking, impressive, inspirational, introspective, sad, challenge-worthy, witty, salacious, mean-spirited, spiritual, intelligent, narrowly focused, well written, silly, cute, unbelievable, unfair, horrible, upbeat, adversarial, disgusting, educational, noteworthy, etc. that they seem perfect for republication.
Mind you, no one is required to see things from my perspectives nor to respond to any posts to which they don’t want to respond. I fully understand your stance on older posts, and I also fully support your rights to have such a stance.
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‘Twas I, mon ami.
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Stu Spelling Bee 