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Sure. Usually they relate to plugins where topics don’t get a lot of traffic but some bugs persist. Even after a year of inactivity i might come along from a google search for a specific problem and be scrolling down and then boom. No more replies.

This is especially frustrating when I eventually find the solution and I’m not able to come back and post it for the next poor soul who stumbles across the same issue and I can’t help but think that maybe someone else would have done the same thing before I did. Here are a few recent ones I’ve had trouble with…

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajax-not-working?replies=4
(there was a proposed solution at the end of this one that didn’t work for me. the topic was closed so i couldn’t add what did end up working for me. also this topic is a year old but the last reply was 8 months ago.)

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/installphp-blank-internal-server-error-500?replies=6
(I’ve noticed that a lot of the ones i was seeing were indeed over a year old but at the same time, if the problem doesn’t expire after a year maybe the discussion shouldn’t either. I linked this one because it was marked “resolved” but the “resolution” for the user was to delete the database and wordpress install and start from scratch. That wasn’t an option for me so I had to keep digging).

I don’t want to keep looking up old issues I’ve had and I didn’t create this thread to gripe but more to suggest that it might be more useful if unresolved threads weren’t locked so aggressively. I’d love it if this forum could be my first stop for if I’m having issues with wordpress or a plugin but for the most part I tend to be skeptical of links back to here.

It seems as if the support topics are treated as issues specific to the user that asked the initial question and not as an archive for the rest of the users that might find the topic from a search engine and all too often there are issues that come up that share the same symptoms but might have different solutions which really throws off the signal to noise ratio when searching.