TheOther1 said:
cause it prevents more answers and its very annoying
Precisely.
It prevents more answers.
Sometimes when a question is answered, everyone starts debating the answer or spamming or reposting the answer, all of which is pointless. Locking prevents that.
If someone makes a thread like "What's your IP?" or something stupid or something that the mods don't want everyone answering, they lock it to prevent that.
If someone makes an ad thread, the mods lock it to prevent people applying, etc.
If someone makes a thread that is revived unnecessarily or duplicated, the mods lock it to stop ppl from using that one and using the proper one.
Or if they make any kinda thread that will attract fighting or flaming that's not in the T-dome or breaks the T-dome rules, it gets locked so none of that can get attracted.
There are already many answers in this post, and in this thread, and plenty more out there. I don't know all of them, especially as I mod only at an RPG, a fluffy RP-like HP forum (I abandoned it), a small Pokemon forum, and my own, and haven't been exposed to the moderating of this huge forum, so I'm not considering myself an expert.
This probably should be locked now.
And TheOther1, don't try and make yourself unpopular. Also, must you debate everything that is set down simply?
If certain threads weren't locked, why, this forum would fall to pieces. Any forum would fall to pieces without the *jingle jingle* keys. (pokes Brandonspikes in the ribs. It's a personal joke at his RPG, where I've locked heaps of threads and gotten to be infamous for my *jingle jingle* noise that seems to follow me around.)