Why to Close a topic and how to post reply to such Closed topic?

[pharmankur]

In this forum I find some old topic are “closed”
There might be cases where some new update / solution is available which is worth of a mention in old topic.
But as replying to such closed topics is disabled, forum discussions may miss the relevant updates.

Secondly I question the philosophy of “Closing” a topic. Irrespective of if question is solved or not there is no sense in disabling further discussion on ANY topic … Aka “Closing” the topic (that too under name of project which is having principles of Open Source )

E.g. there is a old topic

How to send Email in Evolution mail using Calc Macro

I am searching forums but unfortunately I can not find the exact code that I need. I do not know if I am not good in searching. I am sorry for that. I am new in Ubuntu OS and I want to send an email in Evolution mail using Libreoffice calc. What I am working with is that when I click the “SEND” button, it will send a message automatically to specific recipient and the cell range will be body of the letter. Hope that you can help me to finish my project. Thanks to those person who have big he…

I have some update regarding solution of it. But I cannot mention it. I think the rules should be updated and everything should be open about ask.libreoffice regarding replying to any topic any time by anybody

Note - In OpenOffice forum no such restriction and Closer of topic is done. Many libreoffice users are more active and vibrant on OpenOffice forum and actually get more relevant help on OpenOffice forum than ask.libreoffice.

[erAck]

Most closed topics were imported from the old Ask site where they were closed using the different software. Usually we don’t close anymore unless it’s for duplicates (well, some people might do nevertheless, but…). For the specific topic you linked I reopened that just now.

[PolygonTurtle]

I have a different closed topic I’d like to update. I didn’t want to create a duplicate question and it didn’t seem worth creating a new thread to ask for one topic to be reopened so I’m asking here. The topic is this one. There is an option under File > Properties… > Font to remove unused fonts. Checking the box and making some small change so the file is written will clear out old fonts. I think this is a better solution than the one on the old thread.

What would be the best way request a topic be reopened? Should there be a dedicated thread for that? Ask on this thread like I did? Message you or some other admin?

[LeroyG]

It is open now.