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Some topics that need a longer automatic closure or no automatic closure are apparently being closed by a default seven-day automatic closure rule. Can topics like
I think github allows you to reopen closed topics, or posters to a thread can close them, but reopened later by someone else. I see no need to automatically close a topic.