Originally Posted by
ryandc99
[*]Merging new members questions into long mega threads is not a good experience for new users. New members have no idea that there is a long standing thread on XYZ topic,
OK, this seems like a decent theory, but you should still 1) let them know that the other thread exists and 2) merge the thread in later. Otherwise you still have the problem of 20 threads laying around that get bumped later, search results getting diluted, etc.