It seems like at least half of the long-dead zombie threads that get revived are done by brand-new posters.
And, I recall that, some years ago (pre-Discourse days), reading from the admins and mods here that threads on the SDMB were now being indexed by Google, and could thus show up on Google searches.
That “Stewart Sandwiches” thread in Cafe Society has come back from the dead more often than Jean Grey, and it’s nearly always by someone who was googling about them, found the thread, and created an account here to talk about them.
When I went to search “why does our dress code not allow denim” on Google just now, this thread was the sixth result returned:
