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Thank you for the transparency of your decision. It's always welcome from the community.

Agree and even better would be that type of information under the story header so anyone who was following the thread knows that it has been closed and the reason as well.

That's something we've discussed at length and will probably implement someday. It's pretty challenging, though, to do it the way we want, and other stuff has to get rolled out first.

Quick and dirty would be to manually update and append "Thread Closed [n]" to the header with a message like this:

ADP Begins to Roll Out a Zenefits Competitor; Thread Closed [n]

Where "n" is simply a number that is listed elsewhere that describes the reason for closing. Note that can scale to any number of reasons or explanations either existing or new as if it's a footnote.

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