Just having a little rant about the closing of topics and I give the Sven Bass thread as an example. By closing the thread you have stopped the natural flow of conversation. If you read through the thread you will see that (on the whole) people have made sensible comments and the conversation has evolved from the subject of Mr Bass in a genuine manner.
Why not simply change the title of the post to "New Title: General Chat" or "from Sven Bass to Various" and thus keep the conversation live.
If you were standing in a pub a conversation could easily go:
"Sven Goran Eriksson really is poo, don't you think?"
"yes he is...."
"and his formation is all wrong"
"he needs to go 5-3-2 and use Terry, Campbell and Ferdinand"
"no, 442 cos Campbell's poo"
"actually campbell's back to his best and ferdinand's form is struggling"
"hang on, we were talking about Sven.....so i don't want to continue this conversation..."
Ok, so we aren't in a pub, but you get my point (hopefully)....
Why not simply change the title of the post to "New Title: General Chat" or "from Sven Bass to Various" and thus keep the conversation live.
If you were standing in a pub a conversation could easily go:
"Sven Goran Eriksson really is poo, don't you think?"
"yes he is...."
"and his formation is all wrong"
"he needs to go 5-3-2 and use Terry, Campbell and Ferdinand"
"no, 442 cos Campbell's poo"
"actually campbell's back to his best and ferdinand's form is struggling"
"hang on, we were talking about Sven.....so i don't want to continue this conversation..."
Ok, so we aren't in a pub, but you get my point (hopefully)....