What leads to Apple Support Community threads being closed?

It you want to respond to a closed thread, create a new post and you can reference that thread with a link if you wish.

Most of the times they are older posts where the OP who posted the question is no longer participating or responding with any requested follow up. Many times older threads are also from an OS version that is no longer current, so responses may not even be relevant any longer. There is very little value in posting on an old thread and you are much more likely to get more eyes on a question with a new post.

rbstar1950 wrote:

Why are so many threads closed in Apple community?

Of the available (bad) options, the Apple hosts seem to prefer newer threads to older.

Inactive threads get closed, while other threads can be explicitly closed by the hosts.

The older threads can be stale information, and can attract spammers.

Various of the forum contents go back a decade or two, and some of the active helpers twenty-five years.

Because they've been inactive for long enough that the system automatically closes them.

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rbstar1950 wrote:

Well I can see that happening but many do not have any conclusions to the issues.

Yes, that can happen. There can be various reasons for that.

Duplicate threads can happen, too.

Mixed threads can happen, with some mixed threads related and with other mixed threads discussing completely unrelated issues past maybe involving the same model iPhone or some other such detail.

Some active threads can be the same question and the same answer, repeating.

Get enough internet points accumulated (4000) to reach Level 5, and you can then post user tips, and maintain those pages with a discussion of most any Apple-related technical topic you want.

Or If you should want to answer some of the backlog of unanswered questions, there are recent questions to choose from. Have at.

TL;DR: This is a user-to-user forum, most of the folks helping are other users, Apple may or may not read postings here and only seldom replies, and not every question posted will get an answer.

Another factor: In my long tenure here (~25 years) I have seen very few posters who come back weeks or months later to look for new answers to their threads.

If you come here from a search engine, you will always encounter a lot of closed posts. Search engines do not differentiate between closed and active posts, so are detrimental to effectively contributing here.

A proven system for helping others here: 

—Bookmark this forum site map ➡️ Site Map - Apple Community

—From the site map, choose topic areas where you feel you can best help. 

—Use the site map’s topic links to go directly to those topic listss.

—Work the first few pages with the newest posts. 

That gives posters the most current information, and they can recognize your contributions with an upvote.