This may sound really odd, but why are forums closed to loose all the info in them? Would it not be a better and wiser choice to put them under an archive forum so the information in them to help people doesn't just flat out disappear? 

People spend years building up forums to help other users, explain things that are not documented, etc.

Removing forum access destroys the ability to look that knowledge up, forever....

Space is cheap dirt now, forums are massively compressible, and there is no need to destroy years of stuff because no one looked at it for 30 days....

Imagine if someone instituted that policy in a library... There would be little information or books left in it in very short order.

And there would be no reason to go to that library, ever again.....

I ran forums for nearly 40 years, and the best way to loose users is to delete their input...

Is that the intention? To delete it and loose the users? Because that is the only thing that will become of it... 

People have already even stated that in this very thread....

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