Why am I suddenly getting a flood of answers to questions that I asked 7 years ago, from users with accounts that were created a week ago?
I was an active user 5-7 years ago, then went quiet for a long time. I have become active again over the past week, and am now suddenly getting a bunch of answers to really old questions.
The answers may or may not make sense, but are usually from an user with an account that was just created (May 17th). Are these bots, or are my old questions being passed off as new because I'm showing activity again?
Anonymous2016-05-25T10:57:35Z
They are point gamers trying to spam their way to level 3 and higher so they can post clickable hyperlinks and more non-answers per day. If you don't report the non-answers you are enabling them.
Community moderation probably IS NOT OFF. Some people are intentionally and maliciously fueling the rumor mill AGAIN by making that statement.
As pointed out, they're point gamers and spammers. They answer old questions because those are less likely to be noticed and reported (although it looks like community moderation is off yet again, so it doesn't really matter). They want to level up to look legitimate and be able to post links.
They are point gamers and spammers trying to get to Level3 to post their junk. By answering questions where the account is probably inactive, they think nobody will report them.