Healthy Thread locking, purpose accomplishments and alternative ways, a debate.
Locking of thread gives the thread originator a set back. Enthusiasm gets dampened. Etc. etc. Spam thread should be deleted or locked, but other threads where, mission accomplished hence locked or event over, so locked. Are these required on forum. There can be other ways out for such thread other than locking, like transfer to general topic etc.
There is a far bigger spam post that is in the Home page of Indiblogger from morning but hasn't been deleted.
If anyone have not noticed it, then please check the indispire posts on the home page. Concerned authorities do check this out.
This thread seems to be going healthier by the day. I am sure Rio will be very happy with the health of this thread.
This is what I meant by supporting locking of threads.
http://www.indiblogger.in/forum/topic.php?pageNum_Posts=2&totalRows_Posts=54&id=15421
http://www.indiblogger.in/forum/topic.php?id=16193
These two threads, where discussion ceased around 7 months back have been bumped up for posting unnecessary blog links. How can this be stopped?
For such things, there is another solution - If someone bumps and old thread for sp, then IP should be able to change the freshness of the topic so that it get buried again 
I am thinking of suggesting making lock as the new symbol for Indi Heroes
The Indi hero symbol/badge is good the way it is 
Make something new for them Indi lockers 
The kilt - The apt symbol for Indilockers - bless their Scottish souls
Loch - the Scottish word for Lake, that is what inspired the Lock symbol - rather esoteric, abstruse and romantically eccentric, too.
Aye, the Kilt, the Kilt, apt symbol of the Indilockers, ah.. the Kilt...
Rio, avid thread starter, was locked outta His own thread / He wanted zee heartless Indipolice dead / Until He changed His mind / Coz He looked behind / And they made His eyes pop / Their kilt made His jaw drop ..... Sigh..... zee kilt .. zee Loch Ness ... an zee Robert Burns, too ....
I agree that a better way should be found to lock threads that meant no harm and I loved the April Fool thread, too. But The Fool is Indipolice, too. He responded to this thread pretty politely and in a concerned manner, too. Even when I pulled Indipolice's kilted leg on April 1st, none of them minded. In the recent past they deleted angry comments so that all of us might find the forum the informative experience it is. In the recent past, they have shown themselves as individuals who conscientiously and quietly do what is a voluntary job. Surely a lock does not symbolize all they stand for. A kilt it is.. The best one, too, with a cartoon of the Loch Ness monster on it. I shall agree to no other symbol....
When you're locked out on your own house, you realise that the cold rain smells better than your air freshener - Robert Burns, in Esquire, circa 1801
I propose the lock beside each indipolice gravatar, this will serve their purpose well.
Sir, would you mind elaborating this?
I am thinking of suggesting making lock as the new symbol for Indi Heroes
Yeah indeed, Rio. Let us give the Indipolice the lock and use the right side panel for featuring IndiPolice instead of the current set.
No 
lock symbols for ip, crown symbols for forum heroes. You will get two symbols
I think there are way too many enthusiastic IndiBloggers to dig out unlocked old threads, wake the thread of it's deep sleep, and also wake up the thread creator and the participants and post their blog links in there, citing examples of how people shared their blog links 3-4 years ago. I support threads having served their purpose, be locked, so that no one except an IP would be able to unlock and revive it.
Besides that, I think the thread creator knows when his/her thread serves its purpose and that he/she should be ready for it to be locked, leaving no scope for dampening of enthusiasm or a set back because his/her thread was locked for accomplishing it's purpose.
the talk is for spam free healthy threads. spammed threads can be dealt in any manner, no issues. serving purpose thing is vague and debatable. to some it may look purpose done, but to the creator or responder some purpose may be left.
Point taken, sir.
However, in support of my point, I'd like to put up some examples - Like if we consider this very thread as an example, I believe you too are looking for some resolutions to your query, or suggestions from the members, which you believe would help the admins resolve the "issue". I believe you too won't like the discussion to go on for months or years altogether, would you, if you get enough suggestions or the admins choose to accept or deny the suggestions?
Similarly, I posted a few threads, one of them, while working with the Blogger search in URL, I got stuck at a point, and I put up a thread, asking for a few resolutions. Help poured in, and I got the resolution to the issue. That was a point when I thought that the thread served its purpose and should be locked.
My point was, a thread where discussion no longer takes place and it isn't locked either, is a place for us to do whatever we want, even some things that are not allowed today, but were allowed at the time the thread was started or when discussion on that thread took place.
I understand, Rio. One gentleman by name Jaykumar Menon who used to frequent Indiblogger earlier on used to fight with me a lot on this count. Though I feel Locking is nothing negative, lot of members seem to feel that way for some reason.
I agree, sir, that locking of a thread gives an impression that there must be something wrong going on in the thread, but, can we not lock a thread by editing the thread title?
Like prefixing something like - "RESOLVED" or something like that so that even if someone looks at the thread title, it clearly explains why the thread has been locked, as they do on numerous other forums.
Apart from that, I suggest locking of some threads that do not see any activity for a certain period of time, say, 6 months or 1 year or so, so that dead threads aren't woken up by SSP enthusiasts!
Good Idea. Marking it thus gives the thread creators control and they will not feel so hurt. It also gives us chances to clean up the forum together and keep it full of up to date information. I changed my April Fool thread title to Please delete this and did not feel offended but rather pleased that Indipolice followed my instructions with remarkable efficiency and determination and singleminded dedication. It is a matter of great pride to me to be protected by a policeforce that not only protects me but also helps me with vacuumcleaning.
@Rakhee....is your praise aimed at confounding the IP
No NSV, it is to express my gratitude. The kind of gratitude you have in your attitude to utter platitudes over every latitude when you've overdone the vodka, dude.
I'm certainly confounded 
No, Rio, I really opened a thread yesterday and then changed the heading to Please Delete and it was deleted. Yes Ranjith you missed it. Knitha was saying she would open up an SSP thread, so I opened it for her. It was titled Knitha SSP thread and had a poem that went:
I, Knitha Urs, opened an SSP thread / The Indipolice wanted me dead / But they changed their minds / When they looked behind / And I made their eyes pop / My leotard made their jaws drop
That is when Knitha gave me one black eye
The other black eye is from being socked by the Indipolice for posting a poem on how Indipolice does not use fan to save electricity and keeps cool by wearing a kilt on the same thread.
I liked it too :(
But we can't be fooling through the year.
But we can keep fooling throughout april I thought that you like AF days.
Everybody likes birthdays, Ranjith. Doesn't mean you can celebrate birth month.
Who said you can keep fooling around throughout april
Good idea. Maybe next time on we should move mission acomplished threads into General and Offtopic. Anyway no one reads General and Off topic. So that area doesn't need much policing unless specific complaint is received. But that is my opinion - not the opinion of admins or other Indipolice. If everyone agrees, we can move unwanted things off to general and off topics.
I will create a thread listing all threads that have to be moved to General and Off Topic and you will get bored
No, no - Please no.
TF is already lagging behind in deleting Blog review spam threads....
Sure Rio - Will raise issue with the team.
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