by rpbluesman » Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:02 am
It's good that you bring this up. As has been stated before, topics are locked for a few reasons
1 - Old
2 - Duplicate Topic
3 - Argument/Fight
4 - Prevent Easy Post Count Bumping
And here's the best way I can explain it.
Any older topic is generally locked so that it won't get bumped up for no reason. Feedback topics are generally locked after 3 months, but a site feature is currently blocking the automatic lock feature
Duplicate posts are generally locked because they post no purpose...generally they're left as a general point of reference, but not used for discussion
A topic with an argument is locked for obvious reasons
Stikies are locked so that people can't post in them.
And along those same lines, if a thread gets locked in say the collecting help forum, then it's probably already been asnwered either in the thread itself or in a sticky
It's good that you bring this up. As has been stated before, topics are locked for a few reasons
1 - Old
2 - Duplicate Topic
3 - Argument/Fight
4 - Prevent Easy Post Count Bumping
And here's the best way I can explain it.
Any older topic is generally locked so that it won't get bumped up for no reason. Feedback topics are generally locked after 3 months, but a site feature is currently blocking the automatic lock feature
Duplicate posts are generally locked because they post no purpose...generally they're left as a general point of reference, but not used for discussion
A topic with an argument is locked for obvious reasons
Stikies are locked so that people can't post in them.
And along those same lines, if a thread gets locked in say the collecting help forum, then it's probably already been asnwered either in the thread itself or in a sticky