well, If someone says that it's dead, I assume that they mean that they don't want it clogging up the board when no one's using it anymore. I'm sure the admin interpreted it in that mannner as well. There's nothing wrong with closing dead topics. If people want them to be revived, I'm sure theres a way to reopen the topic in the admin control panel. If no one really shows any interest in it, I don't see the harn in closing it.