I suggest that a new open thread be opened whenever the current one reaches 500 comments, since that's the highest number that can be displayed at once, unless a new one would be opened shortly anyway. (Shortly meaning in less than somewhere between a week and three days, depending on how fast these open threads are filling. )
Poll: Vote by voting one option up and the karma balance down.
EDIT: Changing the poll options in light of khafra's comment, "in favor" -> "New thread after 500 comments" (4 votes at the time of the edit); "against" -> "no new threads" (0 votes) and adding options for other thresholds.
The May open thread is at 400+ now. Are we are still in favor of this? New open threads weren't much good last month since they weren't promoted. I suspect that will have to change for the new threads to be worthwhile.
Hm, I was going to propose that the threads continue on the 1st and 15th of each month (the 14th of February, of course), and be titled "Open Thread: Ides of March edition", "Open Thread: Calends of April edition", etc.. Because the classical Roman calendar is awesome.
-1FAWS
New thread after a number of comments significantly greater than 500.
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