[wp-forums] Closing down threads regarding old versions of WP

[Otto]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:32 AM, James Huff <james at automattic.com> wrote:

> We had a chat about this today in the meetup on IRC and are thinking that
> auto-close after 3 months is the sweet spot, especially considering the
> rapid release schedule.
>
> Pros: More users opening their own threads. Less belief that an issue in
> 3.7 is relevant to 3.9 (for example). Less "me too!" on ancient threads.
>
> Cons: People will no longer be able to reply to their ancient threads that
> they forgot about for 3 months, which isn’t actually a negative point,
> because we have a much better chance of seeing a new no-reply thread than a
> 3-month-old thread with a reply.
>
> Otto, what do you think, and if agreed, would you please make this happen
> for us? :)
>
>
I don't agree. I like it at one year. If anything, I'd rather push it back
to 18 months, but definitely not forward to 6 months.

-Otto