# What can get a post "locked"? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 3, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154 "2001-05-03T00:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/1 "2001-05-03T00:50:17Z")
I;m not sure if this the right place to ask, but; I posted a question in GQ [Tell the white guy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=69550)and the moderator locked it. I re-read my post and the replies, but didn’t see what was wrong. I’m not contesting the mod’s decision, but would simply like to how I can avoid this in the future. Peace, mangeorge (Link added - Jill) [Edited by JillGat on 05-03-2001 at 09:11 PM] ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/2 "2001-05-03T01:50:19Z")
Of course, I can’t speak for Jill or any of the moderators, but even though you and the first couple of posters seemed to be interested in a factual discussion, I would guess that Jill didn’t believe it would stay that way long. There have been a couple of questions like that in GQ and the moderators have had to maintain a pretty tight rein on them. Jill probably just didn’t feel like going thru it again. Your question basically was “Why are you prejudice?” This would have as many answers as there are people responding since there is no one answer for a question like that. That really not what the GQ forum is for. Just my take on it. I’d like to see the answers people gave to the question myself, but I think you’d have to post it in either GD or IMHO. Jim ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/3 "2001-05-03T02:30:33Z")
Sometimes they do it because: 1. The post was already answered successfully. 2. they want to put the post in another forum without anyone posting to it in the meantime. 3. duplicate post 4. offensive post 5. posted by a person no longer a member trying to sneak in etc… 6. moderator had too much tequila & missed with the mouse. which post mangeorge? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/4 "2001-05-03T02:33:33Z")
Your best bet would be to e-mail the moderator with your question. Sometimes there are subjects they prefer to deal with that way rather than posting. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/5 "2001-05-03T02:47:08Z")
Handy, do you even read this stuff before you answer? I forgot to say what **zgystardst** said. If you think there might be trouble with it or it might not be in the proper forum, email it to the moderators and CC Lynn & Tuba and see what they have to say. I’ve done it and got the answer back quickly. Once was a ‘go ahead’, once a ‘please don’t’. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/6 "2001-05-03T09:44:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > **2. they want to put the post in another forum without anyone posting to it in the meantime.** Wrong. You can post to a thread that I’m moving at the same time. Both actions will be processed, and the server decides what comes first. It’ll just take the move a while longer, that’s all. Furthermore, a locked thread cannot be moved from one forum to the other. Try not to answer questions you have no knowledge of, **handy**. I second the suggestion to e-mail JillGat. She’s the only one who can answer in this case. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/7 "2001-05-03T15:46:38Z")
“Wrong. You can post to a thread that I’m moving at the same time.” Im typing from personal experience. Lots & lots of times Im submitting a post & BOING! I can’t submit it because the blasted thing got locked & sent to some other forum. So personal experience shows me that I can’t post when you are playing around with the messages, sir! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/8 "2001-05-03T16:14:12Z")
Handy, it is perhaps true that you cannot post while a thread is actually en route to another forum, but if the thing was locked (and showed the “locked” icon) as you suggest, you wouldn’t even be able to open the damned “reply to topic” page. Simply put, you and the OP are speaking of entirely different things. The chances of what you are describing, actually happening, are vanishingly small. The scenario you depict requires that a mod move a thread simultaneously with your submission of a post to that thread. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/9 "2001-05-03T16:22:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UncleBeer \* > \*\*The chances of what you are describing, actually happening, are vanishingly small. The scenario you depict requires that a mod move a thread simultaneously with your submission of a post to that thread. \*\* yea, but **UncleBeer** just **look** at **Handy’s** post count, the chances of **any** mod moving \*\* any \*\* thread at a point in time when **handy wasn’t** posting is the mathmatical equivalent of zero! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2001, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/10 "2001-05-03T16:33:45Z")
Yes, it is possible to post to a thread while it’s being moved. I’ve done it, once. It’s also quite possible to open up a reply window, and for the thread to be locked before you hit “reply”, but of course, that depends on how long you keep the reply window open before noticing that it’s finished loading. Perhaps **handy** is thinking of the old UBB software, where a “moved” thread would first be closed in its original forum, and then re-created in the new one, resulting in a closed remnant? ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/11 "2001-05-04T02:07:25Z")
This thread was basically an invitation for white people to make bigoted, hateful remarks about black people. It could only lead to problems and I’m not interested in the inevitable intervention it would require. I can’t imagine any useful information or enlightenment coming out of this and I’m quite sure it would only be hurtful and/or piss me (and others) off. At the very least, it is not a “general question” with a factual answer. JillGat Moderator, General Questions ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-get-a-post-locked/64154/12 "2001-05-04T02:37:00Z")
Bigoted, hateful remarks certainly aren’t what I was looking for. Enlightenment was. But, I’ll drop it. Peace, mangeorge (Outta here.)