Talk:Bowser/@comment-24176520-20140624035850/@comment-25653892-20170514131827

The thing with posting to old threads is that those threads can often contain outdated information, and it's like continuing a conversation that ended years ago. For example, Pinkolol has left the wiki, and there have been no edits from that IP since a few days after this thread died (though granted, the person's IP could have changed). By responding to a thread like this one from 2014, you're almost certainly talking to no one.

I can see the value in replying to old messages in certain situations; like when a question has been answered and it's reasonable to provide that answer in a visible space; or when something really needs to be bumped, and contributors will be visibly notified of it. In this specific context, though, it's kind of pointless.