Why even close any thread if the quality has "diminished"? Why not just let it slide into irrelevance if it's so lame? Wouldn't people just stop posting in it eventually when they have nothing left to say?
I hate the habit of thread closing. Drives me nuts and it's one of the reasons I at some point stopped getting into any remotely long winded arguments on GAF and never really started on ERA.
Writing those pointless mini-essays takes time, and then you literally could have the thread closed before you hit post, or right after, etc. lol
Theres a forum on the internet that was about railroads.
Before you laugh, you nerds like anime, so fuck off.
Anyway, the moderators were idiots. Someone would post a somewhat open ended question. Someone would answer. Thread locked because the question was answered.
Hypotheticals were banned.
Any slightly off topic reply = thread lock.
They didnt understand that the purpose of a discussion forum was discussion. More posts = more activity = more ad revenue. But nope. Lock, lock, lock.
What used to be a very active forum now gets like 5 posts a day across 40 subforums.