Hi Pearls.
An inactive thread is one that has not had
posts within 90 days, but millions of posts here are read long after a thread has gone 'inactive'. Our collection of threads benefit hundreds of thousands of readers who choose not to post and are important resource they would not otherwise have.
Regarding privacy and best practices, you left out an important part of my answer in your quote, which was:
We are pretty anonymous here. We have over 3 million posts so it is pretty hard to randomly find someone on our site. Rarely are people found and when they are its because of leaving the site open on their computer, not clearing history, or by using a name that they have used elsewhere and is well known.
We do take privacy very seriously here. We also are open about our policy in our guidelines which all members are encouraged to read before posting.
Harri