who keeps locking threads in oot?

[Mat Sklansky]

Nick and Yeti, please take this conversation to pm.

[Dids]

Locking threads, imo, is either for longer threads that have some value or threads that you want to make a point with. If a thread is obviously inappropriate and everybody should know it, I don't see much value in doing anything but deleting it.

[NT!]

i lock threads where i want to make an example of the thread - i.e. there have been several like it lately and i want people to see it's not ok, or it's a very uncommon problem that people might not be aware is against the rules.

for just boring, total dreck type stuff, deleting is preferable to locking. this is something we discussed at some length a while back, i think it's best for the moderation to be less visible when there is a certain contingent that will view lots of locked threads as a problem with mods, basically no matter what, instead of as a problem with posters.

i don't think it's a huge deal either way, but after that discussion i changed my strategy a bit and have found that deleting results in overall a lot less pointless bitching than locking.

[Yeti]

i'm drunk and depressed, but wait, i was right in an argument on an internet website? i do have something to live for after all!

[Ryan Beal]

Ah the old astroglide debate...