In all honesty, I don't believe older content should be downvoted. There's still some value there, and most of the people on ListNerds, in my case anyway, haven't seen it before, so it's not recycling the same thing over and over.
The fact that you got spammed with downvotes for simply speaking your mind, is wrong on so many levels. I'm sorry to hear that happened and thanks for the update on that end.
!CTP