Why lock?

[Jon Cole]

Why do people lock their own topics here? It makes no sense. It's irritating.

[Greg Myers]

[southpier]

hurt feelings. take my marbles and going home.

[Greg Myers]

or play by the rules ?

[chunkypeanutbutter]

I've locked a couple of my topics before. One, my Cal-look Beetle, since I've not felt the urge to finish it and just felt it was right to lock it for the time being. The other one I've locked was about legality of doing a commercial model kit in resin since it was answered pretty quickly and accurately.

Wonder how long this topic will last before being locked after veering off-course....

[Eshaver]

Too many have "Frail" egos here . I have been asked why I seldom post . The answer is simple . Nearly everything I say is taken out of context . Too many want to "Goad me " into a fight and I have the fact is to back up anything I do post . Besides , I don't have time to post my reasons for why I build old annuals or other such ......................

[Belugawrx]

Message them and find out....

[Danno]

  On 5/15/2015 at 4:49 PM, Belugawrx said:

Message them and find out....

Whoa! There's a concept. Good idea, Bruce!

[Harry P.]

  On 5/15/2015 at 3:49 PM, Jon Cole said:

Why do people lock their own topics here? It makes no sense. It's irritating.

My guess: the OP thinks his thread has gone off the rails or has gone off in a direction he doesn't like.

Wanna get back at them? Lock this thread.

[Greg Myers]

Boy that'll teach 'em.

[Rob Hall]

Sometimes the OP locks the thread because the question posed in the topic has been answered and thus the thread's purpose is complete. It is only logical to lock when further discussion would have no purpose..

Edited May 16, 2015 by Rob Hall

[unclescott58]

  On 5/15/2015 at 3:49 PM, Jon Cole said:

Why do people lock their own topics here? It makes no sense. It's irritating.

Why do people write in a script font that is hard to read?

Scott

[bobthehobbyguy]

I've closed topics when my question has been answered.

But I've seen people lock threads like a petulant child because they aren't getting the instant attention they wanted.

[Guest]

My reasons from my experience:

1 Trolls

2 Thread goes completely off the rails due to reason number one.

3 Question has been answered. Why leave it open for twenty more responses of the same answer worded differently? To me, that's more irritating than a locked topic.

4 Thread gets combined with a topic from 2007 and buried under humpteen pages.

We used to have the option of deleting a thread. If we still had that option, no one would even see a locked topic and it could save on bandwidth.

[superbike-shaun]

I locked a recent thread because I got a great answer and it solved my problem now where's that font when I need it? superbike-shaun

[426-Hemi]

- I tried to lock a topic I was lookin for parts, and I don't see the option in the "edit" screen?????

[slusher]

  On 5/15/2015 at 11:34 PM, Rob Hall said:

Sometimes the OP locks the thread because the question posed in the topic has been answered and thus the thread's purpose is complete. It is only logical to lock when further discussion would have no purpose..

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