First off, please dont be rude. The reason it is locked is because it was part of an old generation so the chat is being preserved

Going off of what Toxic Goo said, a topic locks itself after being inactive for a long time. The newest forum topic was last year, so chances are it'll get locked.

I doubt all the topics in a forum would get locked due if somebody made a stupid topic. Especially if the forum is still live seven years after said topic was made.

The more you know

ok, sorry for that

then is it possible for a topic to be duplicated for this purpose?

and how come they don't say their locked?

First off, please edit your comments if you want to say more.

With that out of the way, do you want to duplicate a topic to continue the discussion? If so, you can't duplicate it, but you post a link to the original in a new topic, and continue from there.

I'm also not sure why the locked symbol doesn't show. It used to. Maybe it's broken?

ok, thank you! (sorry for being rude )