# WTF?  Why lock this, Czarcasm?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-why-lock-this-czarcasm/249918>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 12, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-why-lock-this-czarcasm/249918 "2004-06-12T01:43:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-why-lock-this-czarcasm/249918/21 "2004-06-12T21:32:17Z")

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> [@Lord Ashtar](#):
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> Couldn’t the Admins or Jerry the Tech Guy run some sort of script that closes all threads over 3 months old? Then nobody could post to them.
> 
> Set it to run nightly and this problem will go away forever.

It would have to be a script that closes the thread three months after its last _post_, wouldn’t it? My sense, anyway, of the three-month rule is that if a thread hasn’t attracted any contributions for three months, it’s presumed dead. I can conceive of a thread that would garner discussion intermittently for several months, so locking threads by start date would kill a still-viable thread.

Of course, if everyone read the FAQ before posting, this stuff wouldn’t happen, right? 😉

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**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-why-lock-this-czarcasm/249918/22 "2004-06-13T02:07:06Z")

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Um, but bumping old threads sends e-mail notifications to all the old suscribed posters. Seems an efficient way of soliciting active presumedly knowledgable responses.

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