# Closing threads for no reason - Godfather Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 2, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads-for-no-reason-godfather-edition/692159 "2014-07-02T02:20:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Friend\_of\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Friend\_of\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Friend_of_Bill)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads-for-no-reason-godfather-edition/692159/41 "2014-07-02T19:31:03Z")
We must be protected from ourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads-for-no-reason-godfather-edition/692159/42 "2014-07-02T20:10:39Z")
If a thread had to be closed, I would have voted for “how do you wipe?” ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads-for-no-reason-godfather-edition/692159/43 "2014-07-02T20:12:40Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > There’s a reason this message board is the best one on the internet, IMO. Just as a a great magazine editor makes a magazine interesting to read, a great moderator team makes a message board interesting to read. One way to to that is to weed out the junk. This thread was junk. Not comparable. Magazines have a finite amount of space, message boards don’t. If that thread was in the top part of the forum, it’s because it was interesting to a number of posters. Any thread on this board will seem like “junk” to someone. If it wasn’t interesting it sink away on it’s own. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads-for-no-reason-godfather-edition/692159/44 "2014-07-02T20:15:42Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Nah, the thread closing was stupid. The thread was stupid too, sure, but if that’s a criterion for closing threads, let’s just lock up MPSIMS right now and be done with it. Yes, that’s another hyperbolic thing people have been saying for years and years. MPSIMS keeps going, though. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads-for-no-reason-godfather-edition/692159/45 "2014-07-02T20:27:10Z")
Yeah, the point wasn’t to suggest we close MPSIMS. It was that… never mind. You can keep pretending to not understand the criticism of arbitrarily closing threads for being dumb, while leaving a shitload of dumb threads floating around everyday. It’s too late in the afternoon for me continuing to pretend to give a shit. I got the answer to my question of why the thread was closed: “We didn’t like it.” Fair enough. It’s almost happy hour now. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads-for-no-reason-godfather-edition/692159/46 "2014-07-02T20:31:04Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > It’s too late in the afternoon for me continuing to pretend to give a shit. Thanks. Next time, don’t open an ATMB thread just because you’re bored and want to kill some time by annoying the staff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/closing-threads-for-no-reason-godfather-edition/692159.md?page=2)