Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-34326521-20141005101404/@comment-24770490-20141028085021

Blaziken rjcf wrote: It takes as long as it takes for the page to load, then for you to click on the "More" button, click on the "Close" button, type your reason for closing the thread, and click on the "Close" button again. Doesn't sound like a lot, until you take into account that this is under the assumption that you're doing everything perfectly every single time (which, let's face it, nobody does, and, if you happen to click outside the pop-up menu where you have to type your reason, the whole thing closes and you have to start from the beginning), that your Internet doesn't lag or shut down for no reason, that the thread isn't several hundred replies long (those take longer to load), that the OP isn't so long as to require you to scroll down an unknown amount, and so on. All these little delays add up, especially over the course of over 1000 threads.

I once deleted the Browse category that had around 700-800 elements, I think this shouldn't be as bad. I'm really not trying to be smarter or tell you what to do but theoretically, if all admins closed 10 threads per day the issue would be over in a month (28 days). Ten doesn't seem as much even with bad internet and the reason can be just copied.