Sure. I sometimes answer the ‘related’ questions if they catch my eye. It depends on the context of the Q but sometimes Qs can have a complete revival because someone chose to answer it years later.
I’ve been looking at a lot of older questions lately. Sometimes just out of curiosity because a lot of question have interesting topics and debates, but also for my knowledge, so I usually don’t answer them. Like for example, today I needed an idea for how to cook chicken breasts, so instead of asking, I just searched it and there’s already about three threads on it that I looked at.
I answer old stuff that is mostly tech related if I can offer insight. No real need to answer “Favorite pizza toppings”. But if it is computer related I will answer since someone might google the problem they are having and find some help.
I don’t search out old questions but if one popped up in my “activity for you” that I felt I could contribute to further then I wouldn’t have a limit on how far I would go back.
They catch my eye and I read but normally don’t post, I don’t know anyone on the Q’s, which is weird. I want a long-term online home, so get used to my sass peeps.
Today I had a whole bunch of old Q’s come into my New Activity folder, but when I clicked on each of them, I could see that they had all been spammed. Wonder if it’s the same spammer, or a whole slew of different spammers.
When I see a question that interests me I usually comment regardless of its age. To tell the truth, it doesn’t matter if I don’t get an acknowledgement on an older post (though I often do), because for me, expressing myself about something I feel strongly about is rewarding whether my comment is read or not.
I do it occasionally. I figure it’s fun for some people to see an old Q pop up in Activity for you If they don’t like it they can just hit “stop following”.
I don’t really have a time frame personally, as long as the topic interests me enough and if I see that the thread’s posters are still active on here. I’d just posted an answer to a question yesterday which was asked some 2½ years ago. I’m not a big fan of reposting somebody else’s question (though on rare occasions I do), and sometimes the older thread becomes revived. Well the choice is yours, but the above was my opinion on how I go about it.
Often, if I have a question, even if it’s been asked previously, I’ll ask it again because in the past few years, so many new users have come on board, and so it’s likely a new discussion will get a whole different set of answers.