Lockout
#3
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 2,375
It means the topic has been exhausted for one reason or another and the admin has decided to prevent further posts. It could be a "dead horse" topic...could be people aren't playing nice...could be it violates terms of use...it's just at the discretion of the powers that be!
#4
It means that no further posting is allowed on the topic. Moderators will lock a topic when they don't want a lot of replies to it, like when it's just a mods announcement, or when they feel that the discussion has been exhausted or gone far enough off track to warrant locking the topic.