JC, locking threADs is a tricky thing. GL 22 only refers to it in regards to it being an option to an OP for a thread he recently started that has responses to it. GL 22 does not discuss the actions of modtards locking threADs for whatever reason they may deem necessary.Good stuff. I share your view on locking threads. I have had a thing or two to say about Closed Threads myself as in general I am against censorship. Especially in a place like this. But my vantage point is certainly different.
I can tell you how I view locked threADs. A locked thread is a modtard admitting that he is unable to do his job. There are rare occasions where that is not an indictment against a modtard.
Example: A thread starts about Hooktard A doing a NCNS in coed. The fucktard has his say.....the hooktard has her say.......half of the room sides with the hooktard......half of the room sides with the fucktard.......two pages into the conversation the posts crash into a name calling festival between 5 or 6 retards.
The modtard has a couple of options. He can start slinging points at the 5 or 6.......or.......he can assess the threAD for continued value in regards to the original intent (the NCNS) and decide that the original conversation has reached a natural conclusion.......and lock the thread with an admonition to the thread hijackers to please refrain from said behavior.
The minimum that a modtard should do in locking a threAD is post that he is the one locking the threAD (own it), and state in the threAD why he is locking the threAD.
Modtards who lock a lot of threADs can get called on it in modtardville.
To be clear, locking threads is a tool available to modtards to moderate their forums of the board. Doing so without reason is frowned upon. Originally Posted by dearhunter
To my perspective, there is a recent example of thread locking that was a bit cowardly for being preemptive. As you indicate, there are dozens of ways to handle 'the infection' a bad thread might be, and for sure an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure, but to just cut the whole limb off because of a paper cut? In this case it is sort of like a couple questionable exit pardons: the guy is out of office and its done.
