If I were to hazard a guess, its because emotions kind of took off and the discussion spiraled. This isn’t the fault of the OP of those threads. Just this community (and this isn’t unique here) sometimes just derps out. Then they don’t see anyway the discussion is going to get on track and just push everyone to move on.

It can kind of suck if its your thread and you had an idea or something to say and then it gets buried. But suffice to say, if Dana, Mayra, Ignasi, or AndyB has locked it, they also read it, chances are anything of worth was gleaned and taken over. So they’re not entirely wasted.

In many cases, threads sometimes just take space IMO (and I am just voicing my opinion here), and get attention from things that probably need more attention. Especially if something goes into a ‘Funcom Bad’ discussion, or PVE and PVP crapping on each other. Those don’t really serve any purpose. People say they are feedback, but they’re the same words and accusations said for years (or decades in some cases). So like a post saying the sun will rise tomorrow and the sky is blue… it gets a bit redundant.

My advice is don’t really worry about it too much. They’re not silencing you and the ones who get the threads locked are just ignorant most of the time. Though personally… when people do get overly personal… and when I say this I mean they start using a thread for dms and not merely insulting each other… that shouldn’t be reason to lock a thread. Just put the two in time out or tell them to chill.

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