well if people go reviving topics like this you could always look at taking away some of their hosting credits and things that you would do to someone posting useless or spam posts. the whole point of posting to obtain credits can make people do stupid things sometimes.

I don't see the problem with just automatically closing old topics, though. They don't have to be deleted. You could at least make the bar that shows the date that the post was made a little bigger. Maybe you could make it so that it would grow over time.

Right now the only topics that would require to be close all those who have questions and problems with their accounts. When it comes to programming they only need to closed if it's beating a dead horse ie: post are becoming repetitived.

Anything community related is open 24/7 reguardless of how old it is. Like the How did you Trap17 Poll topic.

I definitly agree that people should refrain from posting the same thing re-phrased over and over again, though there really isn't much anyone can do about this, seeing as some topics on here have 16 (and up) pages and nobody wants to read all that before posting. It's almost guaranteed that someone will re-state something similar to another, oblivious that they are doing so.

Five posts in a row, however, can and should be taken care of, as the person doing so was clearly only trying to gain credits.

As long as we're coming up with ways to prevent things like this, people should just learn to explore the topic a little further before posting. (At least the first and last page >_>)