Quote from: BitHodler on July 20, 2016, 01:10:59 PM

Quote from: lemipawa on July 20, 2016, 09:26:08 AM

Those thread that received 300 plus response should be closed, topics like "If bitcoin dropped to $1, what you do?" that topic received more than a thousand replies already and it should be clear by now to the OP what others will do "If bitcoin dropped to $1, what you do?" same goes with "Is bitcoin being used for illegal activities" also received more than a thousand replies and the most classic example is "How to motivate women to use Bitcoin?" with more than 2 thousand replies, there's more of them out there.

Those kind of threads are beginning to be a haven for account farmers and for those who are short with posts to meet the minimum or wanting to reach maximum post before cut-off date. Those should be closed.

It won't happen, but if such threads are going to be closed, there will be a flood of freshly opened threads by these farmers and signature posters.

If you close the door for them on one side, they will look for another door that will lead them to their destination.

Actually, it doesn't even matter if they're locked or not. New threads with:

literally the same question
a prior question previously asked
a vague and general question

... will appear. You may not notice them, but there's already been a couple of them in all the large spam board sections (Economy, Speculation (every single time the price shifts a tiny amount), Gambling (a million threads about "strategies"), Bitcoin Discussion).

Let's not forget in Meta that there's dozens of threads pertaining to the same question, like the leet post count threads or removal of signatures (campaign or not). I think what would also clear up some space in Meta is if there was a master thread of hacked accounts. Instead of having a scores of them pop up every week, we can at least limit it to a single thread where it can be even organized by someone.

Hell, I'm willing to compile that sort of data! (Shoot a PM if anybody's on board)