stajer - 11:47 pm on Dec 28, 2009 (gmt 0)

My reading is the OP is complaining that a member can post to an old, seemingly dormant thread and that thread won't pop to the top of the thread list for that topic.

That is, that someone can "sneak" a comment in on a dead thread without anyone else seeing it.

I don't think that is how the system works - I think if anyone posts a comment on a thread, that thread comes back to the top of the thread list for that topic - no matter how old the thread.