>>As it is, I'm always a little reluctant to step in and lock things
>>because I fear people will go, "Hmm, here's a thought - oh, but this
>>thread's locked, so I guess I won't bother posting it."
>
>Well, if the feature you describe were properly implemented, you could
>do a "reply to new thread" to an article in a locked thread. You just
>couldn't reply within the thread.

... I know.

Hence "as it is". Right now that's not possible, and so I fear people won't bother going the long way around to break new comments out of old threads; they'll just let the new comments die unposted.

Not that this is always a bad thing; if people lost interest in posts containing nothing more than "you made me snarf" and Narn Bat Squad references, I wouldn't lose any sleep...

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