Bookwyrm627: Huh. That's a change in policy, then. Previous policy was OP could request and receive a thread closure.
fables22: It's funnily convenient how no one noticed that we had that conversation in November, literally hours after I joined in house. It's not a new policy - it was just that the person I asked about it at the time didn't happen to have the right information. I've closed numerous threads upon the OP's request since then.
No one noticed? Did you ask everyone?
I'd have you know I've noticed such things 3-5 times a day. :-p
It's not necessarily the thread date that might have gone conveniently unnoticed (or perhaps considered irrelevant) so much as the lack of a readily accessible public record of your timesheet of clocking in/out of your job, in particular your hiring date/time. Perhaps you're so intimately familiar with your life that you think everyone else knows everything about you, too? :-p
[I hope you're not expecting everybody to have read every post in every thread before posting anything…I mean, that'd be great, but um, yea, probably not going to happen. And even then, the likelihood of everyone developing the exact same understanding would be, er, unlikely.]