paper-jack, that was talked about by michelleoz@ebay.com 4 1/2 years ago, and she made a commitment to act on it, sadly until recently very little was done about it (with the exception of kh-stanley).

I would have thought that it wouldn't be hard to put some sort of auto-reply block on threads over 12 months old - but there you go ...................

https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/eBay-Community-Discussion/Welcome/td-p/2056740