Post #72759 by hanford_lemoore on Mon, Jan 26, 2004 10:21 PM

Maybe the moderator who is locking a thread should post a courteous explaination as to the reason for the lock-down and, if that reason is the number of similar posts in the past, post links to the historical posts in question.

This was done in the fonts topic (by a few members). Before it was locked, I even linked to a great design book that does talk about fonts from the 1950s. I'm not sure why Mick said he was "still waiting" for info about a book.

Perhaps it needs to be pointed out that there are 5 other Fonts topics that are still unlocked. It would be nice if, when you searched for "tiki fonts", or any topic for that matter, you got only 1 or 2 long posts with all the info there, rather than 5 or 6 posts each with redundant AND new information.

If an old topic is resurrected with new info or unasked questions, it shows everyone what's been discussed before, and it keeps all the info in one topic, making it easier for other people to find in the future.

It is apparent that to achieve this, simply pointing out the other topic(s) is not enough; because posts continue in the latest one rather than moving discussion into one of the original topics (I'm guilty of this myself). But if the topic is locked, there simply no choice.

I'm not saying this is the perfect system; only that it's not like anyone's been banned from discussing Fonts. BK did point out that you have 5 other font topics in the forum already.

If you don't think this isn't the strategy we should take with duplicate topics, please let me know your thoughts, either by PMing me or posting it here.