Xepherys,
There was
a thread about this recently in Tilted Support. It went awry because it turned out the the poster had an axe to grind, but there were some good answers there. Here's a little help:
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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Yes, it's true...sometimes a bad opening post can still lead to a good thread. Most of the time it doesn't. Closing threads with bad opening posts serves to encourage the thread starters to learn to create good opening posts. The fact they were lucky and it started off as a decent thread anyway is irrelevent. If the importance of a GOOD opening post isn't stressed, the lesson isn't learned for the NEXT time. And, if the thread starter cares about the topic, the closing of such a thread does not need to lead to any stifling of discussion. As it has already been pointed out, most of the time the thread starter can PM a mod with a better opening to the thread and the discussion can be reopened.
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In short, it is about the long term growth of the forum every bit as it is about the life of any particular conversation.
On another note (and here's where you've got a Catch-22 that no one can really blame you for, the search function doesn't work right now. From
this thread.
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Originally Posted by Halx
This is because I deleted the search indexes.. I'll rebuild them soon. It takes a while.
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