You suggest that discussions tend to die, but the tendency to die may be a symptom of the exact overload of New Stuff coming in on a minute by minute basis (well, maybe not that fast). I think that you are thinking too synchronously.

Questions that arise in my mind:

• Why does a discussion have to end?
• Wouldn't the "FREEZE BUTTON users" jumping in to a finished discussion see the nodes contained in that thread?
• Isn't it really up to the individual user who replies to a node to determine if the thread is dead?

Yes, discussions around here tend to last 1 to 3 days, on average. But from my understanding, the freeze feature wouldn't freeze all your nodes in a wormhole in the space-time continuum. I read it in a way that suggests only your Newest Nodes would live in that limbo state, while making your rounds to the nodes of interest would allow you to "glimpse into the future" (which is really the present (even though technically, if you're viewing a node, it was written in the past)).

P.S. how do you know that tilly gave the best answer?

ALL HAIL BRAK!!!

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