Strongly disagree with giving infractions for bumping old threads if it's relevant and of good quality.

Google loves sites who update old content and keep things current. It's the sign of an active and well managed site. 90% of sites don't update old content which is annoying when you find it in Google. eg think of a warez site and dead links. Doesn't it piss you off it's not updated and kept current?

Google has a freshness algorithm that ranks newer content higher. By adding new relevant content to an existing topic that topic appears much higher up search results.

The other thing is these old topic that are updated regularly are seen as more important by Google. Why would a topic be bumped if it's not interesting or still relevant? A discussion going on for a number of years must be more interesting that one going on for three days.


People hate finding old unanswered threads. If you have a problem and find an old question but it's not answered you get a very bad impression of the site.

Quality content is what matters. It doesn't matter the age. If the content is relevant and of a high quality it should be posted.