I never understood the policy of locking threads (perhaps someone would care to explain). It's in the nature of human discussion for it to drift in various directions, and terminating the discussion because it went off on a tangent is stifling since it makes it feel like you have to tread carefully about everything you say instead of just speaking naturally what comes to you, lest the thread get locked because you uttered something that wasn't sufficiently on topic. It also denies future people the chance to reply to the original post should they want to, and they have to unnecessarily start a new thread on the same subject.
Why do topics get locked?
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fro7k
, déc. 16 2009 11:50
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Posté 17 décembre 2009 - 06:52
Snoteye
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Threads do not get locked when a single post is off-topic, but when the discussion is off-topic. Meaning, the majority of recent posts seem to be largely unrelated to the thread title. If an interesting but unrelated topic is raised in a thread, take it to a new thread if you want to keep discussing it, and if you feel a thread is prematurely terminated you're allowed to start it anew, under the same rules. Also, see the site rules.
Modifié par Snoteye, 17 décembre 2009 - 06:53 .
