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Leumas Dragonsword -> RE: Q and A locking (6/8/2010 2:59:01)
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I think Sir Gnome's point is the most relevant. But as the original poster has said, it would give the AKs a relative break, but, we are there for a reason.
The main difficulty that I see occurring is that people may be given the wrong answer, and if they were to have the power to lock their own thread without the proper information then they would be given false knowledge that they would go and act on. I don't mean to say that every thread is handled this way but there would be cases here and there. A remedy to this problem would be for the AK to see the false information and then provide the original poster with the proper information within a pm or an Edit Note. But, this would take more time than just letting the thread run it's course and then that AK deciding whether to lock it or not.
I am mostly referring to the AQW Q&A because that is the Q&A Board I have spent most of my time in so I wouldn't be sure as to what the rules of the other Q&A Boards but I'm pretty sure that the above problem could happen to of the Q&A Boards.
Just realized, forumites do sort of have their own locking system, through Lock Requesting. It's the same as locking except less formal, until an AK actually comes along and locks the thread no body should be posting after that request and hence really the same principle as an actual Lock itself. In the end it's the AKs decision whether to lock or not because usually they would know the answer to the question being asked.
Other than that, the idea would be beneficent for a lot of people it's just that there are a lot of other things to consider first that would outweigh the positives of introducing the suggestion.
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