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

[Mika A Epstein]

Posts are auto-closed at 12 months IIRC.

Joni Mueller wrote:
>
> 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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>
> 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 :)
>
> [snipped]
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