Thread:Talk:Flow/Auto-archiving/reply (45)

Sounds like a good idea in theory, but who is going to split threads in practice? Especially those off-topic sub-threads that are not really worth discussing at all containing only meta-discussion without real value for the project? When you split them off they might catch even more attention, if you don't they are detrimental to the goal of the main thread.

Also, splitting a thread might get controversial very fast (who decides if a discussion is too off-topic regarding the original thread?). Authors could feel offended when their contribution to a thread gets split off, resulting in edit warring.

The only solution to the above I could think of is only allowing administrators to do these jobs. This is however totally against Wikipedia principles and will hopelessly overload admins.