# Fascination With Locked Threads **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994 "2008-06-15T10:23:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/21 "2008-06-16T00:15:56Z")
Hi there, are we planning a meeting? What should we call our mild disorder? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hakuna\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/22 "2008-06-16T00:30:03Z")
My favorites are those that get locked–but someone gets the last word in…just before it is locked. Then there can be no response…bwahh…I love it. my favorite that I was involved with was this one: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9611595&postcount=56](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9611595&postcount=56) when\*\* TLKJLwhatever \*\* got banned and **Giraffe** locked the thread… ahh…I enjoyed that one…still chuckle at my dumb joke… what…hey ‘you’ get a life… it’s Father’s Day…let me enjoy my dumb jokes dammit! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/23 "2008-06-16T14:29:53Z")
Doesn’t everyone do this? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/24 "2008-06-16T15:32:42Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Hi there, are we planning a meeting? What should we call our mild disorder? 😃 [/QUOTE] Morbid curiosityitis? Being human? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/25 "2008-06-16T15:37:07Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] I find it kind of amusing, when I lock a duplicate thread, how much more rapidly views accumulate on the locked version than its identical twin that is still open (at least initially). 🙂 [/QUOTE] Maybe we should lock this one? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/26 "2008-06-16T15:56:22Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Doesn’t everyone do this? [/QUOTE] I used to, but I don’t any more. The ratio of hits to disappointments was just too low. The overwhelming majority of locked threads are duplicates or zombies or inane joke-fests, and none are very entertaining. Sure, once in a while a locked thread ends with a mod smacking down a group of bitch-fighting hyenas, but those are so rare. Why get my hopes up? ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/27 "2008-06-16T16:42:02Z")
Hi, my name is \*\*TroubleAgain \*\* and I read locked threads… ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/28 "2008-06-16T20:50:32Z")
I thought clicking on locked threads was mandatory. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/29 "2008-06-16T20:55:37Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] . . . and are just attracting inane jokes or other comments . . . . [/QUOTE] A moderator, a poster and a banned sock walk into a bar . . . . I’m morbidly curious about locked threads (and banned posters too). I usually look at the last few posts in the thread first to see if it’s interesting or juicy of enough to read through. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/30 "2008-06-17T00:18:22Z")
I always look at them to see what that fucking **Frank** has done this time. ---
**Author:** ![Soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/31 "2008-06-17T00:25:41Z")
I do this all the time! The delicious titillation, the shiver of thrill that runs down my spine when I find a locked train wreck is too sublime to be described in mere words. A locked thread in the Pit usually makes my day. ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/32 "2008-06-17T06:43:17Z")
I always look. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/33 "2008-06-17T07:20:02Z")
Yup, curiosity killed the cat and all that. Me too, I almost always look. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/34 "2008-06-17T08:23:30Z")
I was hoping this would be thread about how to pick locks or cause a trainwreck. I’m sadly disappointed ☹ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/35 "2008-06-17T12:36:01Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] I always look at them to see what that fucking **Frank** has done this time. [/QUOTE] We’ve all come to expect the jackboots, but the loving shine that guy **Frank** puts on them just adds to how twisted and demented we know him to be. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/36 "2008-06-17T12:49:10Z")
[QUOTE=CanvasShoes] Yup, curiosity killed the cat and all that. Me too, I almost always look. [/QUOTE] See my username :). I’m a big fan of locked threads. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/37 "2008-06-17T12:54:11Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] I always look at them to see what that fucking **Frank** has done this time. [/QUOTE] You too? ---
**Author:** ![Purgatory\_Creek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/74df32/32.png) [@Purgatory\_Creek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purgatory_Creek)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/38 "2008-06-17T13:00:00Z")
Count me in. I always have to find out **why** it’s locked. I have learned to avoid many pitfalls by reading locked threads. ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/39 "2008-06-17T13:00:10Z")
I do **Cicero** , and I’m glad I’m not the only one. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994/40 "2008-06-17T15:39:15Z")
I only look at locked threads sometimes. For instance, if I see right by each other: {open} Help with broken air conditioner {locked} Help with broken air conditioner I won’t open the locked thread. Just about anything other than that, well, I open them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fascination-with-locked-threads/452994.md?page=3)