It's anti-user but pro moderator as it takes less effort to moderate a smaller number of open threads. The most egregious form of this I've seen is Chromium bu

It's anti-user but pro moderator as it takes less effort to moderate a smaller number of open threads. The most egregious form of this I've seen is Chromium bugs being left open but people being advised to create a new one if the existing one is too old.