Can we have it so the lower gates close on their own. I made posting about keeping them shut and the response I got was the one I feared.

Squyrl Mr. Onyxadze,

I write in regard to your postings about the gate in Lower Sanctuary. Perhaps a better idea than locking the gate because of a few careless citizens, you could instruct the mercenaries who are posted to there to shut the gate if it is open.

Dell Lannessen Concerned Citizen Rock Bottom Inn

There is little I can do about the actions of NPCs.

Your mercenaries out there are just lazy. >_>

(Should be easy enough to implement.)

I was hoping it would force you to make this suggestion. I didn't put those points into Persuasion for nothing.