104077-mod-locking-posts-in-general-discussion-forums

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Is it common practice for mods to lock posts in the general discussion forum? I understand locking people that have obvious troll intentions. At no time have i ever witnessed a forum that would lock a discussion out of a forum titled "General Discussion" about the state of the game. 
 
Background: I asked people in GD to list what servers were affected by the disconnects and what they were doing at the time. 
The point of this was to figure out if this was a local issue or a global issue. The only topic on this was in the "bugs" forum that was updated 4 hours ago by a mod. That same mod closed my post in GD. 
 
It is in my opinion that the GD forum should be open to major issues like this because it affects everyone and the GD forum typically is the most popular forum. 
 
This all seems shady. what are your thoughts..... last update by a mod 4 hours.... so he was justified to close that topic when brought up in GD? 	
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It was locked for being a duplicate post. Mods lock threads to keep GD clean. Usually they link you to the existing thread so the conversation can continue there.
 
Also, it's against forum rules to make threads like this. >.< This will be locked too. Not a conspiracy though!	
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			Well, talking about locked threads won't end well. But I see your point. Soon, the Coffee thread will be all that remains on GD. If you do want to see what's going on, I guess you need to visit the Bug forums these days.	
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			In b4 lock.	
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			Threads get locked for a variety of reasons, in this case because it was a duplicate thread. In the link I left, you'll see a dev post less than an hour old. Duplicate threads are locked or removed in order to keep things relatively organized and have one place to look for discussion and updates about an issue.	
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			Reported for discussing moderation.	
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