Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-30567038-20170411011609/@comment-26172435-20170411151738

S&#039;moregoth wrote: I know that it does at least prevent them from timing out. Indeed, that is an essential difference between endorsed or not endorsed: people can continue posting on endorsed threads.

Endorsed threads are also valid as reference for originality of a notion and therefore prevent any new suggestions comprising the same notion. This doesn't rule out that new suggestions can continue on original notions brought forward in endorsed threads, of course.