I'm also in favor of the new threads; in my experience, forums that have a lot of rules like "Don't start a new thread if one about your topic already exists" tend to be fairly hostile towards newbies. There's also a level of elitism there that I think we'd like to avoid.
I'm with [OP] about not locking threads. I mean, in the case of the James thread, who else was going to reply to it? If a thread's truly played out, it's going to die on its own. Locking threads (apart from obviously offensive ones) just seems to create a rift between mods and non-mods. Even if there's no harm intended or done, it still reinforces something of a class system that the best forums go out of their way to avoid.
Just my opinion, of course.
I'm with [OP] about not locking threads. I mean, in the case of the James thread, who else was going to reply to it? If a thread's truly played out, it's going to die on its own. Locking threads (apart from obviously offensive ones) just seems to create a rift between mods and non-mods. Even if there's no harm intended or done, it still reinforces something of a class system that the best forums go out of their way to avoid.
Just my opinion, of course.
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