Check out this topic: Please close the mega topics (ternary and companion objects)
This recent post is a post in response to the 8th post in this thread and is a really good example of how a mega thread isn’t able to end naturally:
The topics aren’t ending naturally
These topics are interesting and people will have an opinion on them. This is great until the topic becomes a place to petition for/against a position. Even though everything has been said, another user will come in support/against the feature of discussion without communicating anything new.
The original link is far enough up in the thread history that there’s a good chance people won’t see it and resume commenting on this thread.
Reposting hoping this link remains at the bottom 