This could be a completely original idea because i've been to quite a few forums now but not that many so it's proberly not very likely original but what if you had like a random thread box that brought threads back from the past years after there last post date and/or after they have become lost in the millions of threads that exist and displayed them in a box somewhere available for new posts randomly.

Yeah. Not an original idea I guess but would be a nice feature for really large forums larger than this and for forums like this with 50000 threads to randomly display.

That's a good idea.
Kinda difficult in implementation perhaps?
But not impossible.

All that would be needed is a random number generator and a scheduler. Insert the random number into the showthread php and voila.
Random thread.

Would be cool to have both a random thread link and a select random thread per time interval on display in the general forums somewhere.

Wow, LeeDa. You keep this up and you might earn that two dollars yet.

Surely there has got to be a better solution than random. It should have some logic to help insure a worthy candidate is chosen so as to avoid spamming the boards with useless elderly that couldn't take care of themselves in the first place.

Old threads are simply a list of numbers (IE-- this thread being #62724) so it's relatively easy to write a script that periodically picks numbers, and executes whatever script is required to bump the old thread.
Unfortunately, it's a gamble as to whether or not it reincarnates an "interesting discussion" or "annoying poll posted by some twit that got banned a long time ago"

I guess it may be do-able..........this is assuming someone was feeling relatively OCD, and decided to methodically review every single old post, then compile a list of all the worthy thread numbers........