This is just a random thought, just thought I'd bring it forward to see what others thought.

I was thinking that instead of putting roleplays that have sat dead for a couple months in the Closed Theads, it should only be things like:

- Finished roleplays
- Dead ones that all involved parties want to drop and marked for the Closed Threads

My reasoning behind the thought is sometimes a muse dies and can leave a roleplay fallow for months. Then a muse can just spring up out of nowhere, but now you can't reply cause your roleplay is locked and you have to wait for it to be unlocked. This can take time, cause Rea has a life outside Gaia and might not see the request for awhile. By then your muse could have died, which puts you back in the same position.

It could be argued that you could save the reply somewhere else when your muse hits and post it when the roleplay opens agan. I say there's always the chance you could lose it through human or computer error of some kind (cause those happen at the worst moments!) but I admit to the odds being long, and that this could be an acceptable solution for most cases.

I'm also not suggesting everything suddenly be pulled from the Closed Threads, cause some of those roleplays are well and truly dead. Just that whatever gets pulled out stays out until marked to go back in, if my suggestion is met with interest.

I've also had it argued that all those dead roleplays would clutter up the thread. My arguement is, not necessarily. All the active ones jump to the front, and would push the dead ones to the back and out of the way. Most people stay fairly well up-to-date on their roleplays, and only those doing a "just in case" sweep would have to travel back any true length. If there's still the worry of clutter you could say that anything that's been dead for, oh, maybe a year gets tossed in the Closed Threads.

If staff find the idea interesting, but still prefer the current system, might I suggest upping the time limit for what qualifies as a dead roleplay? Six months, perhaps, or three months if six seems too long?

Thank you for taking the time to read my suggestion : )