What are your criteria, Manhattan for closing threads? Are these criteria officially posted? There was a lovely one “fathered” by me, of course, which was cut in mid sentence, as far as I am concerned. No explanation was given, just your opinion that you’d thought it exausted itself. I’am recent here but it appears to me that threads die “natural death” when they are “exhausted” and can actuall be reopened any time.
Criteria one is if it belongs elsewhere. For example, I’m going to close this one because questions or comments about the administration of this website belong in the Pit.
As to your other thread, there was no discernable General Question, and the thread had degenerated into about half a dozen ‘sub-threads’ about smartt, the muppets, opinions about porn and everything else.
Hope this helps.