I can think of legitimate reasons for old threads to be brought back to the front page. I can't think of a legitimate reason why the continuous, repeat, blatant troll shouldn't be banned from the forums for as long as they exist.

Frankly, the forums have been basically useless the past couple of weeks. I'm sure that's what the troll is aiming for but, then again, if the forums are so bad that no one at all even visits them the troll won't have anyone to be witness to their temper tantrums.