K so as you can see in the neltharion decomission post, people are asking the same questions over and over.
This is i think obviously because the questions are being responded by the staff inside the thread, but the opening post is not being updated. So , the reality is that people will not read through 17 pages of posts in order to see if their particular question was asked and replied by the staff already. This will not change. This is how people are and to some extent I think it could be argued that this is a correct behavior.
So my suggestion is that you update the OP with the questions that were answered by the staff within the threads, even if they contain vague information like "we are thinking about it" and maybe extend with the ideas you are contemplating.
I'm suggesting this for 2 reasons:
1) User PoV: stuff is easier to read
2) Staff PoV: less spam