Exactly. I've desperately needed answers to a handful of questions in the last 2 weeks alone that were all locked. I think unless you can quote an error message there's a good chance it will be locked. Didn't know server hard drive space came at such a premium. Honestly what good does it do to lock a question? I can see wikipedia wanting to groom their site to maintain some credibility and focus to achieve high overall quality with limited editing resources. But Stack Overflow? Give up the power trip already. How has Joel not created Subjective Overflow already?
Locked means you can't add information, you can still read it. If you needed answers, ask a new question. You're not supposed to ask your own questions within someone elses question, and that is exactly why some of these questions are locked.
Why not post to one of the other stackexchange.com sites like
http://programmers.stackexchange.com, there is a wide variety now one probably fits the kind of questions you want to ask.
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Exactly. I've desperately needed answers to a handful of questions in the last 2 weeks alone that were all locked. I think unless you can quote an error message there's a good chance it will be locked. Didn't know server hard drive space came at such a premium. Honestly what good does it do to lock a question? I can see wikipedia wanting to groom their site to maintain some credibility and focus to achieve high overall quality with limited editing resources. But Stack Overflow? Give up the power trip already. How has Joel not created Subjective Overflow already?
Locked means you can't add information, you can still read it. If you needed answers, ask a new question. You're not supposed to ask your own questions within someone elses question, and that is exactly why some of these questions are locked.
Why not post to one of the other stackexchange.com sites like http://programmers.stackexchange.com, there is a wide variety now one probably fits the kind of questions you want to ask.