[quote=@MafiaM16]
I thought as much, but better ask to make sure. Such a shame though, I guess, but oh well. No biggie. 
This would bring up yet another question I had: Are similar Topics akin to the locked/multi-month old ones allowed then?
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I implemented topic auto-locking with 1 month of no activity (only for some off-topic forums, not all forums) after a recent troll decided to bump many topics that were years old.

It may seem like a "why bother?" issue, but I consider it disruptive since old topics tell the story of the time. As topics age and fall onto page 10 and beyond, then they have some relevance to the topics that also died on the same page. This only applies to forums like the Spam Forum that have their own subcommunities.

Thanks for bringing this issue up to me. I had no idea if this was going to be an issue for anyone or not.

I encourage you to pick up the conversation in a fresh topic. You may even want to link back to the topic that inspired you.

I will add some text to auto-closed topics to encourage people that stumbled upon it to create a new topic if they wish to respond. Maybe it would even make sense to add a button that creates a topic based on an old topic so that they are linked in the system.