On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:46:38PM -0400, David Gay wrote:
I never understood why the "close answered questions" practice was adopted. I assume there was a good reason, but I've never heard of a Q/A site doing that (ex. Stack Exchange).
I think it comes from webforums, and is a workaround for that software not really being meant to handle Q&A. Keeps threads from being bumped by the inevitable off-topic discussion or from other people with similar questions who glom on to an old thread.