I would like to know who has permissions to lock a thread on Talk. How is this group established? Is there a process for determining when a thread should be locked?
There’s an automatic list of anyone with mod bit here.
It’s been an ad hoc thing - ask.
The process for locking a thread has usually been to go on slack and go “holy shit, this thread seems headed for the cliff, any objections to locking it?”.
if the rough consensus is that it’s already devolved past the point of no return, lock it, before people start being instructed to self immolate, or other quaint VHS traditions like that.
It’s not a one-way process, and threads can trivially be unlocked.
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Thanks Jon, that answers my questions.
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