Originally Posted by
RSL
Several reasons. I'll list a few reasons why I close a thread.
1. A very similar thread is currently active. I'll close it and link to the other topic so we don't have two split discussions going on. Or maybe I'll merge the two together if that is relevant.
2. The thread has no point. This is very subjective of course. A lot of topics barely have a point and we don't go around closing everything. But there are a few that really don't need to exist.
3. A thread is over with and is archive worthy. We ship it off to the archives and close it so people can read it for ages to come.
4. Innapropriate topics. Example: If someone posted a thread with the purpose of posting your favorite pornographic picture, it would be locked. Anyone posting a pornographic picture would also be banned of course.
5. A threadreceives many posts. An example of this would be a photo thread. Those tend to get big and we usually close them at 500 posts for database reasons (that I don't entirely understand, but eh.) We always allow someone to start another one if they wish.
6. A thread is horribly off topic with no hope of if getting back on track. These will be closed to end that sort of thing.
Maybe some other mods can add a few things to this. I don't know.
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