About thread locking

[Ville5]

Question: I've seen threads locked because they belonged in a different subforum. Why aren't such threads moved instead? It's standard practice in some other sports forums.

Suggestion: Maybe the mod who locks a thread could give the reason for locking as the last post of the thread? I know the author can PM the mod (or does he/she even know which moderator locked it?), but usually many more readers want to know the reason, not just the author. I think it would be in everyone's best interests if the reason was always publicly available. It would serve as a reminder to other users not to repeat the same mistake.

[tsherkin]

We have huge volume of posts on the GB which are the same problem over and over again: PC Board threads. They get locked. Other threads? Absolutely, they get tagged with explanations or moved. But by bulk, people have been putting threads which are obviously PC Board threads on the GB. And not just new posters, either, so that clearly isnt the issue. If posters are going to be lazy, we aren't going to faciliate that.

95% of the time there is an uncommented, locked thread, it is a comparison thread. The other 5%, it's a mistake or a board error or something like that, but by volume, comparison threads are locked.

Edit: also, posters know. You can see it in the thread you were probably thinking of when you wrote this.

[Howard Mass]

Thank you for answering this tsherkin.