How do you find dead threads?

I stalk and creep in the corner of the forums (i've never answered a dead thread).   reply

I feel like they either just look at the [unanswered question] section or just scroll through the questions/experiences page by page until they find something interesting that they feel like answering.   reply

I love it when someone talks abt their life in forums, I lost the link but I went to a post from 2016 and they talked abt heart breaks, it really filled up my heart when I heard she got married to another man and that my comment made her remember how far she's gotten. I only just wanted to know if she's active and I cried at that she was 17 when s......   reply