Topics are being closed when:
- people continue to go off-topic or ask multiple questions in the same topic;
- they are a crosspost of another topic or irrelevant for this forum;
- they have been inactive for at least six months (performed using the prune functionality);
- in the testing forum 5 posts have been made in the same topic (closed automatically).
In other words, when people follow the simple set of rules on this forum topics don't get closed unless they are irrelevant or inactive for a long time. The testing forum is not for discussion and topics in here get removed after a month. I can't remember closing topics recently when they were still relevant or unresolved.
Apart from this, this topic does not fit in "bug reports", so moving to chit chat. This kind of questions should be done via e-mail.