Yes, I do close Sh----es threads when people are finished posting to them. Otherwise, Sh----es brings them back to life weeks or months or years later, which many people consider obnoxious.
Joe Offer.

The only way to ensure that people are finished posting to them - is for our volunteers to prevent this - by closing them.

This is another area of confusion for posters - caused by this imposed personal judgement or routine 'meddling'.
Starting new threads - when there may be threads already on the subject - is judged by our volunteers as wrong.

And refreshing an old thread is also judged by them as wrong.

Recently before starting a new thread I did a search (as instructed) and found one that I could refresh. I scrolled all the way down to the end - to find that the thread had been closed - as a matter of routine!

The software does not judge the refreshing of threads as 'obnoxious' - so until it does - perhaps our volunteers face reality and stop imposing their judgement upon us?