IMO this thread could now be conveniently closed because of that.

Sometimes many things appear to be done only because they can.

You know what - for many years until our protectors were shown how to do it - our forum managed quite happly with all threads open.

Posters were encouraged to start and contribute to threads - rather than asking for them to be closed and prevent others from contributing to them.

A different attitude seemed to be encouraged then - than is encouraged now.