[Paul Stenning]

Following our discussion we have increased the auto-close period from 90 days to 180 days.

This won't reopen threads that are already closed, but will allow currently open threads longer. In practice this means no threads will be auto-closed for the next 90 days.

As always, if you would like a thread to be reopened just use the Report Post option or PM a mod and we will do it for you.

The reason for the auto-closing is to prevent old threads being revived by new queries that would be better as a new thread. It was always difficult to decide where to set the cut-off point. We initially thought three months was long enough but with experience and the number of reopen requests we get it is clear that it needs to be longer.

Obviously it will be a few months before we really start to see if the longer period is better, but we will keep an eye on it and review it in few months.