Hmmm so if I have a question about the topic I would just have to start a new topic and link back to the old topic??
CHeers!
Fair enough.
But let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. Closing old topics would cause a LOT more problems than just dealing with individuals who abuse them.
GD.net closes threads, and it totally destroys any serious communication on a lot of explorative topics - for instance, it takes both academics and mainstream games devs literally a month or more to come back to a thread with new info, but on GD.net you are prevented from answering people’s questions. Remember that gooogle still indexes all these old posts, so answering is hugely valuable, if not to the OP.
The point is that you dug up 8 posts that were over 2 years old and only have a relevent answer/question in maybe 2 of them. The rest were just “is that so”. Just be more constructive or start a new topic so people don’t waste time going into a topic with nothing new provided.
blah3: I seriously don’t see anything wrong with closing a topic after 2 years. the SDN forums do it and just slap an “archive” sticker on it.
I wouldn’t recommend an auto-close after only 30 days, though