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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3945080, member: 27832&quot;]Because Google turns up the old threads just as easily as the new ones, and someone picked this thread to post an unrelated question.</p><p><br /></p><p>More fundamentally, it&#039;s a usability issue in XenForo&#039;s standard layout. Suppose you&#039;ve just landed on this page, and it&#039;s your first time visiting CoinTalk. How do you post something?</p><p><br /></p><p>The <b>Post Reply</b> button is <i>right there</i> under a nice, inviting text field. Where&#039;s the <b>Start a New Thread</b> button? There isn&#039;t one -- you have to go up to the forum level, a different page.</p><p><br /></p><p>With this layout, we get occasional posts on unrelated threads, but not as often as I&#039;d expect -- I credit this to Google doing a pretty good job of finding threads relevant for a query, and CoinTalk having a broad enough selection of threads that there probably <i>is</i> one relevant for nearly any newbie question. If we made it easier to start a new thread, we&#039;d probably get more new threads that really should be replies on existing ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve used other forums where a thread closes a few days after it&#039;s created, or after a few days of inactivity. I like CoinTalk&#039;s policy <b>much better</b>. I&#039;d rather deal with occasional necro-threads than be unable to update a thread with relevant new info, or correct a dangerous error in a previous post (especially one of my own).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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