The reason why I request recipes under the official close of a thread to the current week is because I recap the recipes and post the list on the current week - if a recipe comes in after I do that -the recipe is lost and won’t get recorded on the recap posts.
If people are looking for the recipe or that recipe type - they won’t find it in the recap posts.
I also have all the recipes on an excel sheet- so say if a holiday is coming up - I can list all past recipes and where to find them back in the old threads for that meal (say all appetizers for New Years or Superbowl - as an example)
And, if anyone comments they are looking for a recipe from months ago and give me a hint - I can usually find it pretty quick (if they have no luck in finding it themselves)
“... request recipes under the official close of a thread to the current week ...” Libertarian, please don’t take this as criticism, but statements like this are one of the reasons I have no clue how your system works. I will just trust to your continuing good nature to help me when I get lost again, as I inevitably will. The recipes are super. :)