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Bluelighter
The focus forums are meant to be... well, focused. EADD is its whole own thing, off-topic threads that go on forever are the norm. Some of the other forums are stricter because they want a page that best makes HR information easily accessible to people who aren't necessarily regular posters. Those forums have social threads, in other threads, you want the discussion to be tight, concise and to the point. Some people do get on a power trip, yes, but in, say, BDD, it's entirely appropriate to close a thread about a simple topic once the OP's question has been answered.
I get the bit about keeping discussion tight and I understand that it might make sense to close threads that appear as simple questions. But sometimes a simple question can turn out to be more complicated than it looks. If questions are so simple that a moderator can tell when they've been answered, maybe they should be closed before they are answered, and the OP can be pointed to a FAQ or a wikipedia article or something, instead of it wasting someone else's time answering their question.
I think deano88 must be referring to cases where it's not as simple as that, as he said "like nobody else's input matters". Clearly if he thinks someone else's input might matter, then he's not talking about questions where it wouldn't
Yeah it annoys me too!

