Why are old topics closed?

I’d just note that it was appropriate for this topic to be auto-closed:

And for @Full30 to need to create a new one. I have moved the new post to a new topic.

https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-posts-not-appearing-as-comments-in-wordpress/317580

From the perspective of solving support issues it is important to keep every new issue separate, even if they seem similar, albeit with appropriate links to the existing issues for comparison purposes. All issues have to considered new issues until proven otherwise. If you start from the position that it’s the same issue it artificially limits your enquiry and you often miss the real issue. It’s the same principle underlying the inadmissibility of prior convictions in the adjudication of a legal case (until you get to sentencing). Every case has to be judged on its merits otherwise motivated reasoning is often going to push you to be overconfident in your conclusions.

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