Hi there, are we planning a meeting? What should we call our mild disorder?
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
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! 
Doesn’t everyone do this?
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Hi there, are we planning a meeting? What should we call our mild disorder?
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Morbid curiosityitis? Being human?
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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). 
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Maybe we should lock this one? 
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Doesn’t everyone do this?
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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?
Hi, my name is **TroubleAgain ** and I read locked threads…
I thought clicking on locked threads was mandatory.
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. . . and are just attracting inane jokes or other comments . . . .
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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.
I always look at them to see what that fucking Frank has done this time.
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.
I always look.
Yup, curiosity killed the cat and all that. Me too, I almost always look.
I was hoping this would be thread about how to pick locks or cause a trainwreck. I’m sadly disappointed 
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I always look at them to see what that fucking Frank has done this time.
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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.
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Yup, curiosity killed the cat and all that. Me too, I almost always look.
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See my username :). I’m a big fan of locked threads.
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I always look at them to see what that fucking Frank has done this time.
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You too?
Count me in. I always have to find out why it’s locked. I have learned to avoid many pitfalls by reading locked threads.
I do Cicero, and I’m glad I’m not the only one.
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.