Forum:Why Close Discussions?

Why are forum threads closed, or as stated, "archived", in the Yu-Gi-Oh! wiki after a certain amount of time that no one has added to the discussion? In other wikis, the forums and discussion boards are left open; for example, in the Avatar wiki of the forum "Sokka's True Love--Suki or Yue", http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:1228084, one of the last posts for quite a while had been in September 2014, and then someone else added to the discussion board on September 2015, literally almost a full year later, and people started again all the way to this month, June 2016, posting their thoughts. Why is it not allowed to post in forums in this wiki much later, leaving them open (not including ones that have been stopped because of extremely rude language and such) for anyone able to add to the discussions if others come up with ideas to help the creator and others posting with any possible questions or topics in these forum threads? Why is there a time limit?Mistystar31 (talk • contribs) 04:11, June 23, 2016 (UTC)

The "archived" message is served as the reminder for people to know how old the topic/discussion was. If you read the "archived" notice carefully, it clearly stated that: "Please don't add to the discussion, unless absolutely necessary.", which mean that the forum is not closed, it is still open and you can edit/posting on it like any recent topics/discussions. Once you made an edit to "archived" topic, the message will disappear and the topic will be appeared on the top of the subforum.

So why do this wiki have some sort of time reminder? Sure that the message can be really discouraging for people to bring up old topics for discussion again, but please keep in mind that before the "archived message" feature is implemented, many stopped discussions are "necroed" years later by new users and most of the time they do not add anything to the discussion rather than flame everyone in the discussion for raising a nonsense discussion, not realizing that the discussion is completely legit by the time it is started.--Blackwings0605 (talk) 07:23, June 26, 2016 (UTC)

I know that statement very well, after the "archived message", of "Please don't add to the discussion, unless absolutely necessary." To me, that ties into my "time limit" thought and is also part of the reason I created this forum to ask; you have said this means "the forum is not closed, it is still open and you can edit/post on it like any recent topics/discussions". However, that does not seem correct, since first of all the statement's part of "please don't add to the discussion" makes it sound like it is closed, where any wiki users are not allowed to edit or post anymore on it, because that is "adding" to the discussion. In addition, the unless absolutely necessary part makes it seem even more closed, as even if the discussion/forum was left cliffhanging with no one responding for any information the forum's creator or any other posters want and if even years later, other users know something and can give information or opinions, depending on the topics in the discussion, what could possibly be exactly absolutely necessary? The info or opinions could have been finally revealed in articles of a certain character, certain device like the Millennium Items, certain event, etcetera, without knowledge of either the user who posted in an article whatever the forum maker wanted and does not know of the forum, regardless of how old is it or how long it has not been posted on, or of the forum's creator unknown to the article, whether just added to or a completely new one, having their wishful information.

But thank you for answering my forum's question, Blackwings0605. I greatly appreciate you helping me to understand the two statements that appear when no one has posted on it for some time and that the forums are not closed, and users can still post and edit, even after the "archived message" time reminder has been brought up onto the forum's screen.Mistystar31 (talk • contribs) 18:20, June 27, 2016 (UTC)