Why do we automatically close old BS messages?

Well, Roger - we've had a frequent problem with a very few people who seem to think it's cute to refresh large quantities of old BS threads, simply to flood the Forum with old threads. Many of these refreshes are irrational messages or Spam coming from people who have never posted before. I've deleted hundreds that seem to be posted automatically. So, we close all old BS threads after a time, and let people ask us to reopen them. We also close music threads if they end in directing the originator to another thread or to the DT. There are very few reopen requests, so it seems the demand for refreshing old threads is limited. And our Spam visitors have to work a bit to find threads to post to.
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-Joe Offer-