why do these threads stay open after the suggestion itself has been resolved?
I understand that there is a small possibility that in the future that determination would be changed but it seems like that would be an appropriate case for a new suggestion instead of having one years long thread with possibly large amounts of outdated info in it.
If they are rejected we keep them open in case something changes.
If they are approved we keep them open until it’s on the site because maybe the contributor will have to ask questions about it here to write the PR.
If they are completed we do close them.
That makes sense.
Thats what I figured. To me it seems more logical to have the same process for rejected as you do for approved. You wouldn’t keep a completed thread open just for the chance it may one day be removed. So why not close a rejected thread instead of waiting for that same chance.
Thanks!
had to edit this a few time to clarify my thoughts
Good question. It’s because of the voting system. It is more accurate having 15 votes on Librewolf, than having those 15 votes spread across 5 different Librewolf topics, for example.
Even for rejected tools it is still useful for us to know how many people are interested in that tool being listed, so we want to keep the voting open even on rejected topics.
On the flip side, when a post is locked those votes are returned to the users (each person only has a certain number of votes they can use in the first place). We lock completed topics so that those people can go vote for something else.
It’s easiest to just think of every Site Development post as “something that needs to be changed on the website.” If a post is rejected nothing has changed by definition, so there is no need for separate follow-ups. If a post is completed then something has changed, so to later revert it would be a different change requiring its own discussion and therefore its own post.
Thanks for taking the time to add some more clarity!
I did not consider this. I had thought votes basically held the same weight as points do on Whose Line is it Anyway. 
I think in the end this probably just irks me in a weird way that is specific to me alone. I personally find necroposting and threads that go back 18 months to be more clutter then useful.