Question answered, thread closed. = New Rule

[konidias]

I was exaggerating. The point is, just because it's not against the rules for a mod to close a thread for the reason of "everything has been answered" doesn't mean it should be okay to close them.

It's impossible to argue why it's better to close threads than it is to leave them open. Leaving them open... sure someone might complain if an old thread is revived... But at least someone had a chance to reply. If you close it, nobody can reply to that thread.

All you're doing is encouraging people to post entirely new threads just to reply to some subject that was in a closed thread.

I can't believe we're even having a debate over this. It should be pretty clear that closing threads just because you think they've served their purpose is just dumb. There is no other way to describe it. You're not doing the community a favor by locking up conversations. Plus the excuse of "I wanted to prevent a flamewar" just shows that you have no faith in the community to control themselves, so why should we bother to behave when you've already determined we are troublemakers?

[Sam]

Originally Posted by konidias

I was exaggerating. The point is, just because it's not against the rules for a mod to close a thread...

I've said it because it makes me mad to read this "it's not against the rules argument" every day.

Originally Posted by konidias

It's impossible to argue why it's better to close threads than it is to leave them open. Leaving them open... sure someone might complain if an old thread is revived... But at least someone had a chance to reply. If you close it, nobody can reply to that thread.

You're not doing the community a favor by locking up conversations. Plus the excuse of "I wanted to prevent a flamewar" just shows that you have no faith in the community to control themselves, so why should we bother to behave when you've already determined we are troublemakers?

As I've said before, there is a way to ask for reopening. And, Konidias, do you really think ppl calm down in a minute a stop flaming?
However, I think we got the message from you (community) and we will handle it in the future more sensitive.