My stance is and always has been keeping our boards clean. Cluttering them up with uneccessary new threads due to thread age and size contraints is IMO, unappealing, and very confusing to newcomers. Matter of fact, when threads get locked here, I rarely ever see a moderator comment to the thread "owner" that the thread is infact being locked and why.
This I think is the reason why people are confused here and some are leaving.