Originally Posted by
Pendulous
It happens more often than you think. There have been a number of occasions where I go to click the "close thread" button, and it reopens a thread that was JUST closed. Closed in the time it took me to click it (otherwise it'd say "open thread", it's the same button). Then you get a back and forth with a mod before someone just gives up, kind of like walking down an aisle in a store, and going left, then right, then left, with a person coming the other way doing the same.