Should we lengthen the auto-close time?

[steffahn]

I just came across another relevant prior discussion

Auto-closing threads: Why?

I've noticed that lately many recent threads have an expiration date: [image] I'm not sure how these are arising or why? Are moderators doing this to all new threads? This seems to be setting up a pretty big paradigm shift; I feel that Discourse does a decent job at handling necromancy, and I've gotten the impression that, when you have something novel to add to the discussion, adding a post to an old thread is to be encouraged over creating a new thread. Yes, there have been specific inst…