We have a longstanding policy about avoiding thread necro'ing in year-old (plus or minus some months) topics.
Can we just fix this by enabling some option to automatically lock or otherwise disable responding to posts above some threshold? It would eliminate a lot of annoyance for moderators and, especially, users (who I'm sure love getting the silly slap-on-the-wrist warnings from us for something that, it seems, the site could easily just prevent them from doing). It would also eliminate any subjective wiggle-room in "how old is too old" determinations from moderators.
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