How old of a discussion do you respond to?

i don't think people should say 'why are you responding to this it's so 3-years ago!?' because this is a discussion website. if the discussions were meant to stop being interesting, there would be a function somewhere to disable further comments on it. i never refrain from contributing to a discussion i'm interested in simply because it was posted a long time ago! and yes if it were my discussions, i would be happy to see someone respond to them even after a long time had passed. in fact i WISH some of my old stuff would be 'revived' by people like you and i who don't mind reading so-called 'old news' :)

I rarely even look at how old the discussions are. I responded on one that was a year old, and received the BR. If its that old, and no BR is given, its still open as far as I'm concerned. I think the person who responded to you was rude. I've only been here just over a month, so none of my discussions are that old, but I'll tell ya that if someone responds to any of my first discussions, I'm happy.

I do not really look at the time scale at all, so there is no set period during which I would respond. I have also had responses to discussions that I started over a year ago, so it seems that I am not the only one with this opinion.

I will respond to any discussion that interests me, no matter how old, or if the BR has already been chosen. I answer discussions from my e-mail, and for the most part I keep up with them fairly well. But if there is a time that I am not able to keep up with the discussions, I will still answer them once I do get the chance.