I just had an idea.
Perhaps the mods would consent to giving a warning before closing a thread. Say a 24-hour warning, and allowing participants to post one more post each, maybe with a word limit. That would allow people to have more of a sense of “closure”.
Mods, what do you say?
I hear you. Sometimes the thread is closed precisely because of those one-last -posts. When more posts are deleted than approved.
Feel free to start over.