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One problem is that new posters tend to reply to the OP, and there's just no reason to keep a thread going when the "what to buy" question has long since been settled. Other times the person doing the resurrecting is asking a completely unrelated question, one that should have been its own thread.
Speaking for myself, I never see a resurrected thread that was worth dredging back up for continuing discussion. I'd personally love it if threads would be automatically locked after a set period of inactivity (say, a month or so).
Remember- locking a thread only keeps it from accepting new posts. It does NOT disappear from the forum; you can still link to it in the OP if you would like to refer to a five year old discussion (seems these resurrected threads are never only a few months old... always several years).
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