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Why is this a thing? Yadda, yadda don't mod whine [THREAD LOCKED]. Listen, I once made a good-faith thread about why more shit posting should be allowed. Call me a fool, but I feel the forum needs to discuss certain moderation in open and not through backdoor PMs.
This particular rationale for a thread lock has always not sat right with me. It makes no sense. How can a thread "run its course" if people are still posting in it and discussing it? Who cares if the arguments keep circling back around? The reason for that must be that the discussion is still active and has not been exhausted, if a thread had truly run its course then no one would be paying attention to and/or posting in it.
The let's call it "free market" of the forum already self-corrects any discussion with regards to relevance. If a topic is important towards posters on the forum, it will stay active. Once the discussion is exhausted it falls into the abyss. Truly exhausted discussions/threads cannot even survive necro-bumps as everyone would have already seen the thread, said their peace, and left. How often do necro-bumps result in 5 or more pages of discussion unless it's some truly new piece of information from the OP? Almost never.
So, why do threads get locked under the basis of having "run its course" when in reality the course is still being run? If the "real" reason for the thread being locked is different, than why not just say that instead of the vague and nonsensical "thread has run its course?"
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Why is this a thing? Yadda, yadda don't mod whine [THREAD LOCKED]. Listen, I once made a good-faith thread about why more shit posting should be allowed. Call me a fool, but I feel the forum needs to discuss certain moderation in open and not through backdoor PMs.
This particular rationale for a thread lock has always not sat right with me. It makes no sense. How can a thread "run its course" if people are still posting in it and discussing it? Who cares if the arguments keep circling back around? The reason for that must be that the discussion is still active and has not been exhausted, if a thread had truly run its course then no one would be paying attention to and/or posting in it.
The let's call it "free market" of the forum already self-corrects any discussion with regards to relevance. If a topic is important towards posters on the forum, it will stay active. Once the discussion is exhausted it falls into the abyss. Truly exhausted discussions/threads cannot even survive necro-bumps as everyone would have already seen the thread, said their peace, and left. How often do necro-bumps result in 5 or more pages of discussion unless it's some truly new piece of information from the OP? Almost never.
So, why do threads get locked under the basis of having "run its course" when in reality the course is still being run? If the "real" reason for the thread being locked is different, than why not just say that instead of the vague and nonsensical "thread has run its course?"
