Why does it take 30, 40, 50 posts to occur before the mods lock a post?

[Tweed]

Just wondering if you guys could answer this.

[Lefta Dissenter]

1. Locking

there, how's that? :hi:

[Tweed]

3. I was just wondering if they locked sometimes because of the posts

inside the thread or because they didn't read the thread the first time

[Lefta Dissenter]

9. I had one locked the other day

after 50some posts - my original post wasn't inflammatory, but the mod felt that the thread turned into sort of a non-productive flamefest. But really, I think a lot of the delay is because there's no way on earth to keep track of all of the threads all the time.

edit for stupid punctuation (get a brain, comma!)

[maddezmom]

2. they are volunteers, they have a life outside DU

and aren't here 24/7, like me! :)

[Padraig18]

4. Wrong forum.

You should post this in ATA. It's not proper material for GD-P2004.

[ThirdWheelLegend]

5. this will be locked, wrong board.

This should be on the ask the administrators board

[Tweed]

6. Sorry, I am rather new to DU

I didn't know that board existed

[Padraig18]

7. No biggie.

Just a 'heads up'.

:hi:

[Padraig18]

14. PS--- Welcome to DU!

:)

[ThirdWheelLegend]

11. no problemo

Its way down at the bottom of the list of forums.. sometimes easy to miss.

Any questions about why/how things happen on the boards are usually supposed to go there.

Don't sweat it... was an accident.

TWL

[genius]

10. I think he was asking about the locking in this forum. It's relevant here

The locking seems to vary with the forum.

[Padraig18]

No, it's NOT relevant.

The ATA forum exists specifically to answer questions like this, genius.

[Name removed]

8. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[rucky]

12. Yes! The bad words you can't use are....

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Never takes them that long to catch up with me.

This afternoon I started a thread that mentioned Kerry in passing in a very neutral sort of way--the was really about something else--and they had it locked down just about before I hit the SEND button. I was amazed at their speed. Also at their unforgivingness. Last time I made the same mistake, they gave me a chance to edit the thread & save it (although I had gone off to do something else & missed the notice, thereby getting it locked down anyway).

[Skittles]

15. well, sometimes there's a wrong turn in a thread, ya know?

kinda veers off topic

[Moderator]

16. Locking

the proper forum for this question and questions like it is the ATA Forum.