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    only to view the comments and discover the post has been dead for a month and is no longer worth typing up a comment for.

This is where I disagree with you, and feel that this is a potential feature that I'm not fond of at this moment in time. It's more than possible to revive older threads, and happens on a semi-regular occasion here. If you find a post you would like to start up a discussion on, but find that it's older, I would highly recommend tagging the submitter or other people that you think would be able to add to discussion. The age of a post/comment should never impede having a meaningful discussion about a topic.