>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.
Post ranges and paging deal with it just fine.
>The system of automatic thread-closing isn't really confusing as nobody particular needs to do start the new thread, anybody can.
What happens if more than one new thread is started? I obviously know what you can do to fix it, but it is still working around a problem that doesn't need to exist. I did not say it was not simple either, I said it wasn't intuitive. You figured it out by reading what it says? Congratulations, you can read. That doesn't make it 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?
>For starters, don't try and give solutions for things people don't want to do in the first place.
I guess no one would want a sticky system and sees no use for it, thats why >>1 asked how to do it. Aging threads does not always save them from the reaper (e.g. when oldest threads are deleted instead of the furthest back).
>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.
Yeah, I'll just ignore that "Anonymous" fellow with ID:Heaven.
>>Oh, then please do tell what your point was. I must have missed it in your ramblings.
>Closing threads at 2000 posts is just as bad as letting a moderator sticky something (w.r.t. the users not deciding the status of a thread, instead of a moderator it is the system).
This wasn't a commentary on closing threads; it was about the users not controlling the board or rather, the board interferring with how the users may want to run it. Try looking for the forest instead of the trees next time. If the thought of a moderator stickying something was abhorrent because it was not the users deciding what threads are important why allow the system to decide which threads should die? An both cases the users aren't the ones that control the board.