> This is non-intiuitive, possibly confusing and provides what real advantage over not having an arbitrary limit?

Threads that don't get end get exceedingly large - reloading them will use up more and more capacities, esp. if they get popular in a short ammount of time and more and more people start to reload the entire thread. Some webmasters might not want that. I also already mentioned the benefits of having a new thread starting out fresh after awhile.

The system of automatic thread-closing isn't really confusing as nobody particular needs to do start the new thread, anybody can. And with anybody being able to set up a new thread, it's just a matter of somebody in the community being interested enough to do it. It's really simple and I pretty much instantly got it after browsing 2ch for the first time. I also don't see how "Threads last maximal 1000 replies, new threads can easily be set up to continue discussion" is counter-intuitive.

Your remarks about stickies and voting seems to be pretty useless. You can already age a thread you want at the top of the list. Why complicate this with voting systems?

About ignoring certain users: Could probably be done with some kind of 2ch browser thingy. Just set certain IDs or tripcodes to display "none", "aborn" or whatever.

> That was not my point however

Oh, then please do tell what your point was. I must have missed it in your ramblings.