I’m sure there was some kind of reason, but wouldn’t it have been reasonable and courteous to provide an explanation in the closing announcement?
I realize I’m old and cranky, but if this is a new thing that’s going to start happening, I don’t like it.
Or sometimes a mod clicks the wrong thing.
Sorry about that. No excuse, can’t even claim to be new on the job at this point. I plain and simple screwed up and closed by accident.
eta: I’m surprised it took 4 hours before someone let us know.
Oh, well. No harm done, then. (and I wondered that myself)
Don’t sweat it, What_Exit. Everyone makes mistakes. We all remember that time Marley tried to ban a spammer, and accidentally poisoned a reservoir in Kentucky.
Is this why we sometimes we a thread closed and then immediately reopened after a mod post? I had been assuming you closed it on purpose to get a chance to look at the thread before making your note.
That might be the sequence that got interrupted. I’m not sure. I did shut a different thread down for 5 minutes today. Maybe as I was just starting on my coffee when I was reviewing the flags in that thread, I closed it, intending it to be brief and then life happened?
I don’t think so, I think I just screw this one up somehow.
That’s why you work here and not at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant 
Of course there was that minor kerfuffle back in 2009 when Google inadvertently banned the entire internet. Oops. 
In case anyone thinks I’m kidding, here’s a representative article from the event:
Well, they weren’t wrong