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Topic: What is benefit of locking old topics?

Posted By: jeffdaro
Subject: What is benefit of locking old topics?
Date Posted: 08 August 2007 at 3:15pm

What is the value in locking old topics?

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Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 08 August 2007 at 4:54pm

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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Posted By: jeffdaro
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 5:36pm

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.

Posted By: MortiOli
Date Posted: 21 August 2007 at 1:20pm

On our forum, we lock topics if things get out of hand - ie, arguements etc, or if new users reserect extremely old topics.

Posted By: billd3
Date Posted: 21 August 2007 at 1:31pm

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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