Locking of old threads

andresrcs · October 18, 2020, 1:15am

These are the official explanation and suggested walk-around.

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How Do Auto-Expiring Topics Work? Topic threads on RStudio Community automatically close (See icon) after a certain amount of time. Once they are closed, regular users are not able to reply to them. If you have an issue related to this thread, please start a new topic-thread with appropritae category and tags, and refer back to the closed topic with a link. [image] What motivates this policy? Why auto-close instead of keeping threads open forever? We used to have threads open indefinitely but found that too often follow-up reply-posts were only tangentially related to the original topic. Each reply then alerts every participant in that thread, leading to an overload of notificat…