Some topics may evolve really slowly over time. it’s more compact to have a single post for a long lived topic than to create many posts with just 1 or 2 comments in each. Thought i am new to “lemmy.ml” i didn’t see any huge posts here (yet).
Automatic close after 6 months + possibility of longer as need may be.
I completely agree with your first point. I can’t count how many times I have visited a forum and found a thread that is answering a question almost identical to mine, but is missing one key piece of info that I need.
I hate to make a new, almost identical thread for a simple bit of added info. I honestly can’t think of a good reason in favor of time locking a thread.
If we had to however, I think your 6 month + longer as needed approach seems the most reasonable.
i stole the 6-month idea from :
Travis Skaalgard https://lemmy.ml/u/tskaalgard in present tread. He says Reddit does it. As a rule of thumb, when a big player does something, there is a good reason. Maybe this reason does not fit in here but i wouldn’t know that.
Some topics may evolve really slowly over time. it’s more compact to have a single post for a long lived topic than to create many posts with just 1 or 2 comments in each. Thought i am new to “lemmy.ml” i didn’t see any huge posts here (yet).
Automatic close after 6 months + possibility of longer as need may be.
I completely agree with your first point. I can’t count how many times I have visited a forum and found a thread that is answering a question almost identical to mine, but is missing one key piece of info that I need.
I hate to make a new, almost identical thread for a simple bit of added info. I honestly can’t think of a good reason in favor of time locking a thread.
If we had to however, I think your 6 month + longer as needed approach seems the most reasonable.
i stole the 6-month idea from :
Travis Skaalgard https://lemmy.ml/u/tskaalgard in present tread. He says Reddit does it. As a rule of thumb, when a big player does something, there is a good reason. Maybe this reason does not fit in here but i wouldn’t know that.