There's no need for an apology, it's a simple case of too many people making threads, it's diluting this part of the forum and the threads that most people would find interesting get shoved further and further down the page.
If you have questions then please post them in the most appropriate thread you can find, like the new Y2K bug thread you started that is not locked as far as I know, post as many questions in that as you like, it's the whole making a new thread all the time that is the problem. It's better to make an off-topic post than to make a new thread for it, especially here which is really the off-topic section.
We're going down... in a spiral to the ground...