Does it really matter, any topic that old should have been deleted a long time ago I just look at the topics I made to see if there were replies.
Topics with nothing in them, or only one post should be because it's just clutter. Thats just my opinion is all, thats how I ran my old design site. Well actually I had an archive section where old topics got locked and moved to.
Why bother though? Its a lot of hassle to go back and manually delete every unpopulated thread, for no real reason.
^ i agree they just seem out of place with everything color wise flow and depth. Just work more on cleaning it up.