Firmament

Wouldn't a PM from a moderator amount to the same thing AND a lesser amount of dead/locked/useless/off-topic threads in the forum or sub-forum? If the thread no longer servers (or never served) a purpose, wouldn't it be beneficially for the community (especially new users,) to have them purged? Even more so if the locked thread had been merged? Something must be going wrong if on every page there are three locked threads, usually because the user did not search, and obviously the previously locked threads did not serve as a reminder to the community in this case.

Haha, that's great. The real life dancing reminds me of Daft Punk.

Hello, all, new member here. Anyway, my question is why exactly is there so much excessive locking? I get it, people need to learn to use the search function, and the mods do a great job at reminding them. The problem is, just because a thread is locked, doesn't remove the locked husk of a dead thread from the forum. A lot of the locked threads end up being merged, which creates an unnecessary redundancy. To be frank, the ArmA 2 General forum looks cluttered beyond belief, with all the little locks everywhere.