Because I am a newbie here and made a booboo. Sorry about that.
Ryland
Yes never mind, I was pretty irritated because I spent some time posting a response to this thread myself before realizing it's an old thread. I apologize for the rude tone.
In any case, this is not the first time this has happened, and I've created some feedback here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/limit-new-posts-on-year-old-or-more-threads.2079491/. However, and this will be helpful to prevent newbies from making this mistake again: how did you find this thread? Most people won't have seen it because it would have been buried many pages deep when browsing the forum.