Mods / Locked Threads...

**Bassani** · Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 619 Location: In your Head

Hey guys, I know that you try to keep stuff organized and whatnot, but when you lock a thread, how about letting ppl know WHY you locked it? Might just be a little more nice to know why it was done instead of ppl being like WTF...
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raunch99 wrote:

Congratulations! This accomplishment will go unmatched for quite some time I'd imagine.

**BigZ7337** · Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 2022 Location: Williamsport, PA

**Bassani** · Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 619 Location: In your Head

no, just when you may have posted something about whatever and thought it would be a decent topic to talk about something, it just gets locked without knowing why. I myself have had a couple topics locked and no reason was given, I have also seen others locked. Some people are new to the site or whatever, I mean if something is in the wrong forums, it can be moved, no? I just dont understand why there are topics that are locked when no reason has been given...
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raunch99 wrote:

Congratulations! This accomplishment will go unmatched for quite some time I'd imagine.

**BreakManX** · Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 953 Location: Vacaville, CA

Well, for example, let's say someone was thinking, "I really like this band; I bet some of their songs would be awesome as DLC! I wonder if anyone else here would agree with me? Let's find out!" The person in question then proceeds to post a new thread asking other members if they agree that "X" band would work well in the game. A couple of replies later, the thread is inexplicably locked with no reason given. Naturally, the OP is a little upset that his thread was, seemingly randomly, locked. If only he'd noticed the existence of the Wishlist thread at the top of the forum...!

Speaking from prior experience as a Moderator on other message boards, I can tell you that merging two separate threads together (which is what would have had to be done to "move" the aforementioned topic to the Wishlist thread) is a pain in the ass to do without messing something up in the process. Not to mention confusing to other members.

But the best way to find out why a thread got locked is to PM a Moderator directly about it. Removes all the guesswork.
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**Bassani** · Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 619 Location: In your Head

My point was not to go looking through my posts as it is not meant just for my 2 posts that have been locked, there are posts all over the place with no reason as to why they are locked. I dont think its too cool to have a post locked without a reason as to why...

I mean a mod is going to sit there a lock it, but give no reason

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raunch99 wrote:

Congratulations! This accomplishment will go unmatched for quite some time I'd imagine.

**ImaCarrot** · Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 2687

More often than not, if a reason is not explicitly given by a mod, its because we felt that the reason was already given by another user in the thread or was painfully obvious.

Sometimes we just don't feel like saying "there's a request thread" for the 900th time. (Other users usually beat us to the punch on that particular one anyway.)
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