How old is too old (LJ-wise)?

[drwex]

How old does an LJ entry have to be before you decide it's too old to respond to?

Sometimes I don't read LJ for several days and can find myself going back nearly 200 messages on my friends page. That can be 3-4 days and I sometimes hesitate to comment on entries that old, feeling that it's no longer relevant or the person/conversation has moved on.

What do you, my friends, do and what would you have me do if I find an old entry of yours?

Comments

[roozle.livejournal.com]

I use email notification for comments. Otherwise the conversational element of LJ would be lost on me. So for me, if the comment is still relevant, whenever.

As for what I do ... if it's within the last three or four days and it's not time sensitive, I don't worry about it. If it's older than that, there's some scale of how important it is for me to say $thing vs age of post, but it's hard to quantify. I assume people have email notification on, but it's good to take away from this discussion the reminder that that is not a good assumption.