Ok what's with all the locked topics?

So if I get how the mods work around here, if a topic is finished instead of just letting it die some power hungry mod has to lock it? It seems really silly and pointless...
 
At the end of locked topics I always see some mod say, "Ughh this discussion has run its course so best lock it up". Can't you let the users themselves decide when a topic is locked instead of being so abrupt?

Locked.

While I agree with you in part, I think that the mods have done some bad things, but locking these topics isn't one of them. 
They generally lock a topic when the OP has started no discussion and the users just stray off-topic. They generally let old topics stay open if it raises some good questions or sparks an interesting discussion.

They're terrible threads. So they get locked. Seems simple enough.

haha u suck. This shits more pointless than anything ive seen locked today.

" While I agree with you in part, I think that the mods have done some bad things, but locking these topics isn't one of them. They generally lock a topic when the OP has started no discussion and the users just stray off-topic. They generally let old topics stay open if it raises some good questions or sparks an interesting discussion. "

They're not all terrible threads. I've seen many a thread where people are actually talk rather than the usual dead atmosphere of these forums but they get locked as mods obviously don't want any entertaining threads and prefer when the forums are quiet. They're not doing the site any favours

Really, this is worth its own thread?
 
When a threads discussion value has run its course, the thread gets locked.
 
Much in the same way I imagine this one will soon be.

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For the record we tend to lock topics that are either pointless spam, devolving into mindless flaming or have otherwise served their purpose.