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    Posted: 08 August 2007 at 3:15pm
What is the value in locking old topics?
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In our case, stuff that's been hashed to death, or which have been long since forgotten about, but you want folks to still find and read/reference.
Otherwise, good question........
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I experimented with the locking today, and actually have a reason today. I decide there were some threads that needed to remain intact for historical purposes. So the locking helped me out there.

Otherwise, I don't see how/why it's used.
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On our forum, we lock topics if things get out of hand - ie, arguements etc, or if new users reserect extremely old topics.
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Exactly. Those are good reasons for us, too.
Or, if the thread has degraded, but there is good technical info and we wish to keep the thread for reference. (we get a lot of historical and technical information on our forum, some of it quite rare)
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