[wp-forums] Can someone put this guy in his place?

[Joni Mueller]

The reason I said that is because I was actually Googling in the forum for some problem I was having. Cannot remember exactly what it was, so somehow I must have fixed it. But I found through Google a thread that was exactly like what I was looking for and I eagerly clicked on it, and it wasn't a thread like this one, where someone is having a meltdown, but it was a lot of people with the same problem posting and no one coming forth with an answer.  And the thread was closed.  But then again, it could have been closed simply by the passing of time.  

Which brings me to a question: What is the ripeness stage for a post to be automatically closed? 

Joni Mueller
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Subject: Re: [wp-forums] Can someone put this guy in his place?

Y'know...if this was a forum post I'd walk away ;) Not because I'm
angry, but because I'm having trouble keeping myself concise.

The tl;dr of this is that I totally agree with Joni (except one bit)
but, since I don't see a way to make that thread useful without deleting
it and starting over, I don't really know how else to handle it.

Seriously, I don't. I would not be willing to read through that
shitstorm of a post to glean out how to fix it, and I don't expect
newbies to either. So it doesn't help Billy, and it doesn't help anyone
googling who comes by with the same problem

The bit I don't agree with is more semantics. The forum is for everyone.
The post you make though is for you first. That it can help anyone else
is sort of a fringe benefit, but if it can't help you, it can't help
anyone :)

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