Have you guys considered creating a closed "FAQ" sub-forum. It could be a place for the helpful-yet-redundant threads that are closed could go to zombify. It'd essentially be a "helpful closed threads only" section, to which all of the newbies could conveniently go and search for the answers to their questions before having to search the rest of the board, which can be cumbersome and inconvenient and discouraging.Of course, this would require the members to report such redundant threads for it to work, because the mods can't be expected to wade through all that to find them.
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