Close or keep the topic open?

[gassim (Al-Gassim Sharaf Addin)]

@tophee

For example, the rule of flagging to re-open requires a very technically advanced user base. I would even go as far as saying that it always puts new users at a disadvantage as they will not know the rule and be annoyed at the closed topic

I agree 100%!

@tophee

prevent people from piggybacking on a topic that they feel is somehow related to what they want to say

I think the best approach is to move these “new topic posts” to a new topic and if the current topic is outdated but received a new poster, I’d close the outdated topic and open a new topic; Additionally, if there are several related topics that got attention, I’d close the older ones and keep the updated one (moving the new posts into it.)

Thanks! (: