Should threads ever be locked?

[fyre]

Thread locking is silly, unless a thread has turned abusive. That is all.

move to lock before this thread dissolves into complete and utter lunacy.

Lunacy is good.

[KarthXLR]

This thread needs to be locked. Now.

[CaffeinePowered]

Eschatos locked his own thread that got necro'd, you, as the author of the thread, have the ability to lock you own thread at any time.

The most recent theads I've locked were the recent bitch-fest and QQing that was spread across 3 topics that were all basically the same thing. In the case of this redundancy I locked two of them and left messages stating that if someone felt the need to continue discussion in that particular thread as opposed to keeping things in one topic I could re open it.

No one PM'd me to get the thread back.


Just keep in mind just because a thread gets locked doesn't mean an admin locked it. I also never delete anything, I move things to an admin-only archive if they were overly flamboyant, but nothing has ever been deleted by an admin (except NSFW Images in SFW threads), authors can also delete their posts as well (and I believe the whole thread as well)

[KarthXLR]

Eschatos locked his own thread that got necro'd, you, as the author of the thread, have the ability to lock you own thread at any time.

The most recent theads I've locked were the recent bitch-fest and QQing that was spread across 3 topics that were all basically the same thing. In the case of this redundancy I locked two of them and left messages stating that if someone felt the need to continue discussion in that particular thread as opposed to keeping things in one topic I could re open it.

No one PM'd me to get the thread back.


Just keep in mind just because a thread gets locked doesn't mean an admin locked it. I also never delete anything, I move things to an admin-only archive if they were overly flamboyant, but nothing has ever been deleted by an admin (except NSFW Images in SFW threads), authors can also delete their posts as well (and I believe the whole thread as well)

Every time I try to delete a thread, it says I need an admin to do it for me.

[jorge]

[rumsfald]

Asking "Should threads ever be locked" is like "should all sex be missionary?"

Just because I would never support thread-locking on my forums doesn't mean I should impose my view on the forums that someone else owns. and runs.

[fyre]

Eschatos locked his own thread that got necro'd, you, as the author of the thread, have the ability to lock you own thread at any time.

Oh, sorry. I'm still a bit annoyed that the Biggest Thread got locked though. :-\

[Luinbariel]

I  voted yes. If there is a reason for it, they should be locked.

[Vongore]

fyre is the new/old Mr Grey

[Benito Mussolini]

Yes.

There is no admin abuse in here. If a thread gets locked, it deserved it, and it usually isn't its starter's fault.

[Scary Womanizing Pig Mask]

Neonie?