Originally Posted by pornstar

this is a FORUM.

a place for people to discuss things.

you are trying to micromanage the forum, and that aint the way to do things on a place that is supposed to be for open discussions.

so what if a question has been answered. does that mean more people cant answer it? or that people cant continue to discuss the topic?

now, i know, someone is going to say something like "the longer a thread is open, the more chance it has of going off topic" again.. i say.. so what? who cares? is it killing anyone?

assign someone to go through threads. answer them, and then close them? wow.. now i've seen it all.

i dont know a single person on this or any other forum, that has the knowledge to go through and answer every single thread that ges created.

you sound like hitler to me.

edit: this post was for collosus not shon. i know shon doesnt try to micromanage.

Originally Posted by ROE

as i have mentioned a couple times, i have decided to leave old threads open for a reason. if a person does a search and comes across an old thread but needs an addition explantion on the topic, they have the choice to ask their question in the same thread rather than creating an entirely new thread explaining that they need additional help based on an old thread. the idea behind is this to have people search and avoid creating multiple new threads of the same topic.

in my opinion, i don't understand why people get frustrated when they see an old thread receive a reply. is it that hard to ignore the post date and let a person make a response to an old thread?

Originally Posted by COLOSSUS

Thank you Shon, I understand your reason. I still think though, that threads not directly contributing to a specific reason should be locked though to help newer people find what they need a little easier.

Originally Posted by COLOSSUS

As to older members flaming old thread revivers, I think it is toward post count possibly.

Originally Posted by COLOSSUS

May I suggest assigning someone to go through and help answer questions on new threads following with a close to that answered thread, but leaving open if the answer cannot be found immediately?

Originally Posted by pornstar

exactly.

big deal if its an old thread or a new thread.

yet, when someone asks a question that was asked in the past some of the hotheads always complain and say to use search.

but yet, when someone uses search and revives an old thread, they get flamed for that too.

flamers will flame for any reason they choose.

Originally Posted by ROE

as i have mentioned a couple times, i have decided to leave old threads open for a reason. if a person does a search and comes across an old thread but needs an addition explantion on the topic, they have the choice to ask their question in the same thread rather than creating an entirely new thread explaining that they need additional help based on an old thread. the idea behind is this to have people search and avoid creating multiple new threads of the same topic.

in my opinion, i don't understand why people get frustrated when they see an old thread receive a reply. is it that hard to ignore the post date and let a person make a response to an old thread?

Originally Posted by Corey Anderson

i think its way to much work for how little old threads are bumped