Housecleaning to some, censoring to some. My opinion it does not hurt at all if an old topic comes up twice. Within a day will dissappear from the top.
You did not answer the question. How is it censorship when EVERY thread older than X is closed AUTOMATICALLY? Blame the software?
Spammers tend to bring old topics all the time also. Whether to close or not can be up for discussion, of course.
I just voiced my opinion. No point in closing older threads. And i have previously voiced my opinion that we are too quick to close threads. And like my man Ron Paul I stick to my beliefs.
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You said that we have enough censorship, implying that this would be another form of it. I hope you see the difference between mods closing threads, which can be arbitrary, and LH’s software, which is not arbitrary. Unless Michael trained it to recognize certain groups of people and shut them down.
Ok so they get locked automatically on their own or is it a setting you thinking of placing?
No, automatically without anyone’s involvement. A thread hits 6 months (for example) and gets closed. But of course it is a setting/coding in the forum software.
I’m not set on closing them because there may be different situations. That’s why I said maybe only close Ask threads because they probably age faster. At the same token Share deals also age fast.
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Ok i see. I would say the sharing of deals probably makes sense. Ask hackers i would keep them open.
maybe a time limit like years, how about the dude that essentially bumped his thread from 3 years ago 
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I liked that 
Less threads = less clutter!
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Simply put, some posts are still relevant a year later…others aren’t. The dude asking for dealer info 2 years later?..lock it!
The post about the BMW OL code will survive the next apocalypse.
So in conclusion, you can’t have robots do your work all the time.
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I mean at least it wasn’t ‘please PM dealer info!’
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Well, someone just bumped (and I closed) a year old lease transfer thread asking if it was still available.
Please tell me it only had 10 months left on the lease when it was posted 
Yeah, I was thinking the same, but did not check
Edit: just checked - 5/2021
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Nah man that’s a spammer…
Hot girl pic and phone number right off the bat always gives it away.
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I look at it as a good reminder of amazing deals we have shared in this site. At least did not open a whole new thread. Nobody will reply and in one day it will go away.
We’ve added an automated warning that looks like this:
Revive this topic?
The last reply to this topic was about 3 years ago . Your reply will bump the topic to the top of its list and notify anyone previously involved in the conversation.
Are you sure you want to continue this old conversation?
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Excellent. Great idea. Thank you!!
I suspect 99% of these bumped posts are by newbies finding anything to post to that is somewhat relevant to them in order to get their post counts up and be able to open their own topic. JMO, as most of the ones I’ve closed that I’ve noticed have been by someone within 8 minutes of them registering. 75% of those comments are useless comments too, like “I agree.” Sure, you get the occasional good comment in there…however it really has no relevance today to warrant bumping a post that old.
Common sense kind of plays a part in it too, but I won’t get into that.
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