"Why close threads?"

Somewhere, somehow it takes someone's time and money to keep a thread going. (It also takes our planet's natural resources.) The question is - do the people giving the time and money see any point to supporting the thread? If they don't, they get to ax it.

People in the free world may have the right to express their opinions, but that doesn't mean they have the right to express them using other peoples' time and money.