Why lock this thread?

[Phenia]

Why was this thread locked?

[Daistallia 2104]

It got turned into spam would be my guess.

[Phenia]

If that's so I propose it get un-locked and the spam deleted. It is like *I* got punished for other poeople's hijacking when all I did was put real effort into making a good post.

It's like the moderators are trying to tell me something.

[Barringtonia]

They're trying to tell you that there are more important discussions,

Like this one: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=11634&start=25

Sometimes a thread can start with an intelligent OP and shortly devolve into irrelevant spam, sometimes an utterly pointless OP triggers an interesting discussion, not that I think the one I just linked does either but it might evolve into a debate over whether Alexander was really gay with historic evidence, intelligent cites and witty repartee,

Might not,

My very first thread was locked before nary a post in response, it's best to just let it fly rather than harbour a grudge and assume the Mods are bastards - actually, you don't need to assume that bit, the Mods ARE bastards, just not specific to you - years can be wasted plotting revenge, drawing up complex torture designs and planning out complex kidnapping schedules,

EDIT: Ha, they locked that one now as well, see how the Mods are mere puppets dancing on my strings,

[Ardchoille]

I have my suspicions about what you edited out of that post, Barringtonia. *raises DEFCON*

Thread linked to, locked.

Phenia, rest assured that any time the mods have something to tell you, you will know it, loud and clear. We're an unsubtle crew. You're not Persecutee of the Week.

I'm sure your guess about that thread, like mine, will have been an accurate "thread derailed". I'm not going to undo another mod's decision and reopen it because there's no point: there are always bored idiots on the internet and interesting threads are often the target of their idiocy. We catch what we can, but it's a mouse plague and we've only got one Kat.

EDIT: oh, and that's not a secret signal that it was Kat who locked it. I don't know who locked it. I'd have to go back through 70 pages of mod logs to find out, and I'm not going to, because (a) I agree with them and (b) it's none of my business.

[Katganistan]

FWIW, first I've seen of it.