Why are you locking useful threads?

[Pommie]

I recently had cause to look for a thread on ICD2 clones and found This Thread . When I tried to ask a question, I found it was locked. I thought that maybe someone had been abusive or aggressive but could find nothing. I then look tonight and see this thread, which seems to be a really useful thread, also locked.

Why are these threads locked?

Mike.

[Jay.slovak]

This topic http://www.electro-tech-online.com/v...asc&highlight= was locked because it was not needed anymore. I wrote it is a part of the Sticky. There is no need of having that topic open.

Topics are usually locked, so that people won't "bring them to life" after a long time. Start a new topic and reference to the old topic....

[Pommie]

Originally Posted by Jay.slovak

This topic http://www.electro-tech-online.com/v...asc&highlight= was locked because it was not needed anymore. I wrote it is a part of the Sticky. There is no need of having that topic open.

Topics are usually locked, so that people won't "bring them to life" after a long time. Start a new topic and reference to the old topic....

What about the other thread? I wanted to ask a specific poster a question.

And, what is wrong with people bringing them back to life. It's not like there are 100's of posts per day.

Mike.

[Jay.slovak]

Just imagine you posted in a topic one year ago. Your questions were answered. Now, when somebody posts to the same old topic, you will receive "topic reply notification", and you might not be interested anymore.

And "hijacking" a topic will sometimes cause confusion to the ones who want to help you.

If you really need to Post in the old topic (which got locked) you can always PM a moderator to help you.

[Pommie]

Originally Posted by Jay.slovak

Just imagine you posted in a topic one year ago. Your questions were answered. Now, when somebody posts to the same old topic, you will receive "topic reply notification", and you might not be interested anymore.

And "hijacking" a topic will sometimes cause confusion to the ones who want to help you.

If you really need to Post in the old topic (which got locked) you can always PM a moderator to help you.

With that logic, you should lock every post over 1 month old.

Mike.
P.S. please Mr moderator unlock all the posts that are not objectionable.

[Jay.slovak]

I lock only those, which I can see they were solved/completed.

[Pommie]

Originally Posted by Jay.slovak

I lock only those, which I can see they were solved/completed.

The two threads that I linked to are not solved/completed or, if they are then so are many many more. I just do not understand the logic behind locking perfectly good and informative threads.

Mike.