While I think that closing issues after a certain time is really problematic, there is an inherent problem with a certain subset of stale issues. The most prob

While I think that closing issues after a certain time is really problematic, there is an inherent problem with a certain subset of stale issues. The most problematic part is that the older issues become irrelevant over time, in part because the system changed too much and they don't apply anymore or because the people originally asking aren't interested anymore in the answer. If you just accumulate old issues it becomes hard to find still relevant issues in this whole pile. I don't think closing based on time is always a bad idea, but you should have a good mechanism to save issues that are relevant from the bot. In the end you always need some minimal triage on issues to keep them usable.