# Anyone else obsessed with locked threads? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307 "2000-09-07T01:18:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/1 "2000-09-07T01:18:22Z")
I have developed an unhealthy, morbid obsession with locked threads. Whenever I see one, I have to open it to see what kind of lurid event caused its premature death. It’s like looking at a car wreck on the freeway. Of course, most of the time, it’s something stupid, but still, I keep looking, searching for I don’t know what. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/2 "2000-09-07T01:25:26Z")
For me, the biggest thrill is when **manhattan** or **Arnold W** or **UncleBeer** swoops in in a cold fury and spits wrathfully “That’s IT!!! I’m CLOSING THIS THREAD!!!” But they haven’t quite completed the arcane ritual that closing a thread requires (I like to imagine them running out to the corner bodega for black candles and a capon), and you slip in deftly and say, “I fully agree with the OP.” ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/3 "2000-09-07T01:49:11Z")
There’s definitely a morbid curiosity to seeing that padlock isn’t there? We’re addicts: we just HAVE to know why it was locked. So you read it even if the OP sounds stupid or uninteresting. And it resembles foreplay, the way anticipation builds to the inevitable conclusion until finally… …oh yes… …a mod comes in and finishes it. Was it good for you? Actually it’s even more like sex than I first thought: sometimes the end is satsifactory and sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes you feel like yelling “YEAH BABY!!” and other times “WTF???” ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/4 "2000-09-07T02:18:15Z")
I am always so disappointed when the thread has been closed by request. Where the hell is the fun in that? huh I ask ya? ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/5 "2000-09-07T02:35:53Z")
Funny, I was thinking the same thing today. They’re like traffic accidents, I have to see them and know why they happened. I had my first thread closed last night, but UncleBeer. It was so … liberating. ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/6 "2000-09-07T03:09:20Z")
I can’t resist them. I swear I hear them calling… “Luna, oh Luuunaaa… Come on, you know you want to…” _Click_ I know, I’m weak. ---
**Author:** ![vincenz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/48db29/32.png) [@vincenz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vincenz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/7 "2000-09-07T03:16:15Z")
Just in general. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/8 "2000-09-07T03:19:16Z")
Y’know, if you want a _real_ thrill, I could lock this thread up for you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/9 "2000-09-07T03:47:09Z")
You tease Slythe!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/10 "2000-09-07T04:01:14Z")
Hmmm. That would be ironic, no? ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/11 "2000-09-07T04:28:25Z")
Ooh, ooh, ooh! **Smeghead** , request that this thread be closed and piss off **aha**! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/12 "2000-09-07T04:40:24Z")
aha, send a ten-spot and I’ll keep this thread open forever. any counter-offers? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/13 "2000-09-07T04:50:41Z")
Wait - so aha does not want me to not request that slythe keep this open, which he will do unless he gets money… Aaaah! I’m confused! Do I want this thread open or locked? I don’t know! \<\\> See - this is why I never start threads. ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/14 "2000-09-07T05:07:40Z")
Well Smeghead, with threadposting comes great responsibility. Hmmm… that sounds like a cheesy comic book… ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/15 "2000-09-07T05:18:07Z")
_Spider-thread, Spider-thread Friendly neighborhood Spider-thread_ ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/16 "2000-09-07T06:26:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by slythe > _Spider-thread, Spider-thread > Friendly neighborhood Spider-thread_ It’s not going to be the same if you lock it now. You have to be a _little_ more curmudgeonly or the thrill just isn’t there. ---
**Author:** ![Lazarus7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/67e7ee/32.png) [@Lazarus7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazarus7)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/17 "2000-09-07T06:28:28Z")
nope … sorry. Ignorance shining through here as I did not realize that you could tell a thread was locked! (you mean all those shiny pictures MEAN something???) ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/18 "2000-09-07T18:25:54Z")
I’m still waiting for the day when one of my threads gets locked. It would be an honor to have started something controversial. ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/19 "2000-09-07T18:48:24Z")
I have never NOT opened a locked thread. “Ooh! Ooh! What’d they say to get it locked?! Threats against Cecil? Bomb recepies?” And then it turns out…“Oops! I accidentally hit new thread, not post reply! Can you close this for me?” Aaargh! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307/20 "2000-09-07T19:31:28Z")
I FULLY AGREE WITH THE OP! I FULLY AGREE WITH THE OP!!! Wait. Damn. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-obsessed-with-locked-threads/32307.md?page=2)