Just a quick question

Master Z · Post by **Master Z** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:55 am

has a forum ever been locked?

Teinaava · Post by **Teinaava** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:59 am

I don't think so. I don't know why you'd ever need to lock an entire forum.

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:01 am

For massive spam attack.

The Edgy Redguard · Post by **The Edgy Redguard** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:15 am

My Friend bought a new address for his forums, i think it was .co.uk, and a little after, spam was coming from every where, out of the 300 registered members, 30 or so started harsh trolling and his forums got taken down. Not really locked, but one of the same things

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:20 am

Wait, do you mean a forum in it's entirety or a forum like "Oblivion" or "General?"

Master Z · Post by **Master Z** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:27 am

the second
Woot 100 posts(but I'm still considered new)

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:30 am

Oh, then spam fests.

The Edgy Redguard · Post by **The Edgy Redguard** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:32 am

Kestral wrote:Wait, do you mean a forum in it's entirety or a forum like "Oblivion" or "General?"

Its Entirety

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:32 am

Did you mean your friend's forum?

The Edgy Redguard · Post by **The Edgy Redguard** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:36 am

Blue the Thief · Post by **Blue the Thief** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 3:57 am

Master Z wrote:the second
Woot 100 posts(but I'm still considered new)

Hey, I got up to about 250 to 300, and I was sill considered new, because I hadn't been on for a week yet

Kestral · Post by **Kestral** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 3:59 am

Blue the Thief wrote:
Master Z wrote:the second
Woot 100 posts(but I'm still considered new)
Hey, I got up to about 250 to 300, and I was sill considered new, because I hadn't been on for a week yet :lol:

Because of you're RP thread.

Now back to topic or lock this.

ThePatster · Post by **ThePatster** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 6:13 am

As a former owner of a forum, you usually lock a forum when it needs maintenance, or there is a major bot situation.

satan_n_stuff · Post by **satan_n_stuff** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:37 pm

ThePatster wrote:As a former owner of a forum, you usually lock a forum when it needs maintenance, or there is a major bot situation.

As a former owner of a forum, I agree.

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:30 pm

If you find that a forum is no longer needed, yet you do not wish to delete all of the posts in that forum, or you still want to keep all of the forum's posts publicly viewable, you can lock that entire forum and use at is a sort of archive. Also, some people have written tutorials in a certain forum on their board and have locked that specific forum to keep other users from replying to the posts in there, while still keeping the posts viewable as tutorials of some sort. And then, of course, there is the problem of spam bots, but usually a board will be disabled until the spam bot problem is fixed.

There are probably other reasons to lock an entire forum on a board, but those are a few of the most common reasons. In fact, locking entire forums is not uncommon.